Good morning world

[lovelife65]

Taken this morning when I got the dogs out for their first romp in the field at our house in Ashland, Oregon.

Not a lot of edits done, so I know there is room for improvement.

Thanks for peeking.

Good morning world by sharonkay finley, on Flickr

[Wavelength]

O, this is a beautiful fine morning indeed

[Tom Barry]

It looks fine as is, to me.

[Manfred M]

Nicely seen and taken Sharon. Try cropping 20% - 25% from the top and see what that does for the image. You do need the sky, but not quite as much as you have, in my view. Pushing the sky down will give the tree more prominence.

[xpatUSA]

Nicely seen and taken Sharon. Try cropping 20% - 25% from the top and see what that does for the image. You do need the sky, but not quite as much as you have, in my view. Pushing the sky down will give the tree more prominence.

Also perhaps crop a little each side to bring out the big tree even more. I found the halos on the backlit branches a little disturbing when pixel-peeping so I toned them down in FastStone Viewer:



Also upped the drama a tad:

[Jim A]

Well seen indeed, Sharon! Whilst I like the original a lot, the VG feedback will give you an even greater result, maybe competition level.

[lovelife65]

Thanks for all the great feedback, it is appreciated to receive that from such amazing photographers.
I need to check my camera settings as I don’t fee I pushed it that hard in post so not sure why the halos.
Thanks for ideas on how to tone those down.
I also really should learn photoshop instead of just Lightroom. ☺️

[xpatUSA]

I need to check my camera settings as I don’t fee I pushed it that hard in post so not sure why the halos.

Sharon, I viewed the halos at 700% zoom which made them stand out. Because my zoom is set to Nearest Neighbor, each original pixel becomes 7 pixels square with no interpolation, making artifacts easy to see. The halos are 1 to 2 original pixels wide, so if you post-process at 100% view or even less, the halos would have been hard to make out. For example, in the post view here, they can't hardly be seen at all.

Thanks for ideas on how to tone those down.

I did a quick a dirty job in FastStone Viewer (FSV):

Applied about a 2px Gaussian blur.

Applied Unsharp Masking three times starting at about 3.3px radius, then 1.7, then 0.7px. Started with a low amount, increased at each step. FSV is an editor where steps can be repeated ad nauseam.

No doubt there are better ways and it's a very good idea to check camera settings first.

Personally, I dislike the idea of letting the camera do anything up front but that's just me ...