Nicely composed and processed.
Nicely done Joe.
If I might make a couple of suggestions you could consider:
1. The sky is very bright to the point of being distracting. If you use a luminosity mask, you can reveal some of the texture in the sky and calm the whole scene down a bit.
2. The scene is effectively back-lit. If you use the shadows slider in Lightroom or ACR (or a similar tool found in many other parametric editors), you can open up the whole scene a bit more and bring out and open up some of the textures in the trees..
Thanks Manfred. I will be trying both of these suggestions later today.
Finally I have tried the adjustments you recommended.
First I raised the shadows in Lightroom. Next I opened in Photoshop and added an adjustment layer for brightness/Contrast and made adjustments using a mask. Finally I added an adjustment layer for Vibrancy and with a mask made some more adjustments.
I think I may have overdone it with the vibrancy however.
Last edited by joebranko; 25th August 2019 at 03:22 AM.
I like the calm atmosphere...nice image!!!