Is this Ok

Or what do i do to make better? 70mm 1/500s ISO 100 f5.6
​Thanks

It really needs more contrast to bring out the sky and clouds. Also bump up the sharpening to see more detail in the mountain.

donaldjledet said:

Or what do i do to make better? 70mm 1/500s ISO 100 f5.6
​Thanks


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Don is right . . . needs a little more detail in the rock since that's what seems to be the center of interest. Compositionally, you may want to play around with where you place your center of interest, like not smack in the middle of the photo. If you had shifted the camera a little to the left or right, you might have had more interesting lines.

Pretty sky. I know you travel. Is this Utah, Arizona, or New Mexico?

Yep. Just be careful when ramping up details in the photo that you don't get the halo on the edges that can come with high levels of sharpening, tone mapping and structure additions that you can see in Don's edits (which I'm sure were incomplete and meant to simply show the areas in the sky and mountain that needed to be brought out).

Did you use anything to alter the sky and not the rock? As it looks like you have a bit of overflow from the sky selection tool! Contrast is definitely lacking in this, Maybe play around with contrast, blacks slider, vibrance, Clarity and see how it ends up.

Yep thanks for the tips.
have to get better at p.p.
​and composition.

ohkphoto said:

Don is right . . . needs a little more detail in the rock since that's what seems to be the center of interest. Compositionally, you may want to play around with where you place your center of interest, like not smack in the middle of the photo. If you had shifted the camera a little to the left or right, you might have had more interesting lines.

Pretty sky. I know you travel. Is this Utah, Arizona, or New Mexico?

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​Yes it was in Arizona along either I-10 or I-40 don't remember which one.

So a filter wouldn't help. Just do post processing to yake care of it?

donaldjledet said:

So a filter wouldn't help. Just do post processing to yake care of it?

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If you were to redo it then yes use a filter (Circular Polarizing), and maybe change the time of day .

But if you were wanting to edit this image then you would need some PP'ing.

I have ViewNX2 can i do that in it,or
L.R. 4 or photoshop elements?
Oh by the way saw your Africa photos earlier
this morning they are awesome!
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donaldjledet said:

I have ViewNX2 can i do that in it,or
L.R. 4 or photoshop elements?
Oh by the way saw your Africa photos earlier
this morning they are awesome!
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I only use LR4 and they are some of the options I play with.

I am glad you liked my Africa photos, it was an amazing trip.