Long & Winding Road
Uploaded: October 06, 2013
Through the Colorado mountains! This road is on the climb to Mt. Evans. Colors were coming in nicely.
Nikon 90, 18-200mm lens, PP in LR5, and Color Efx.
(10/2013)
Arthur Bohlmann October 06, 2013
Great composition color , detail and use of leading lines #1547344Kalena Randall October 07, 2013
Thank you. I had to remove a bunch of power lines and two telephone poles! It took a while! #10864561Kalena Randall October 07, 2013
Here is the before photo. #10864566Jeff E Jensen October 07, 2013
Wow, great job on this, Kalena! #10864594Rita K. Connell October 07, 2013
really like this one Kalena, beautiful colors and great job on the edit. very nice! #10864688David Resnikoff October 07, 2013
KalenaBeautiful Seasonal shot.
Great contrast between man and Nature
Lovely
David R #10864694
Kalena Randall October 07, 2013
Thank you very much, everyone. My confidence isn't the best and the boost sure helps me to know I did this one right.Susan Williams October 07, 2013
Beautiful scene and lovely Autumn colors, Kalena. You did a great job on the edits. #10864748Michael Kelly October 07, 2013
Thanks for posting the original so that we may see the excellent job you did in post processing. The comp is beautiful and you brought out all the nice color with your edit as well as eliminating those pesky man made eyesores. The key to a successful edit is that you cannot tell anything was done and without your original I would not have known you made any changes. #10865258Dale Hardin October 07, 2013
You did a masterful job on this excellent rendition, Kelena. I agree with all the kudos listed above.If you'd like to take it one step further give this a try. Even though the image is perfectly straight, it creates an optical illusion that it is tilted to the right. This is due to the way the shoulder of the road falls off to the right in the foreground.
Distorting the image to widen the road would not work because it would tilt the trees above that area. However you can select the road and the immediate shoulder in the foreground and widen that to eliminate the perceived tilt.
I hope you don't mind that I've tried the fix and am posting it here to save you the trouble of trying it. If you have any questions on the procedure, let me know. And if you don't like it, let me know that too. #10865272
Peter W. Marks October 08, 2013
Everything in praise has been said already Kalena.Debbie E. Payne October 08, 2013
Kalena, Colorado has beautiful fall color and you have done a masterful job in making it even better than it was. Do you visit Colorado often? #10866148Kalena Randall October 08, 2013
Debbie, I lived in Conifer, CO, for several years. The road in the photo was not far from my home. We would go to Mt Evans quite often and the 14er that is closest to Denver. I don't get there very often. #10866164Beth Spencer October 08, 2013
You did a great job with the edits! What a beautiful road, and the colors are gorgeous... We are seeing a lot of color now. #10866216Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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