When it’s triple digit temperatures at home, I love going through overlooked autumn images from past season in anticipation of the autumn to come. I also wonder if my experience taking an image, and the blissful quiet solitude I experienced, colors my perception of an image like this one- that combination of quiet, fog, and autumn and very hard to come by in the Valley! Yes, I know that I overboard on exposure, shadow and black adjustments to the right, but trying to convey that soft, atmospheric feeling while struggling with the bright highlights in the background rock at the left of the frame. Trying to keep a subtle warm/cool color balance.
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I found this a difficult image to PP what with the shadows and bright background. I did some basics PP in ACR and PS, then a crop and a clean up of distracting branches.
Thank you, Mark! It is indeed a very contrasty image for sure. I like the way your crop brings out more of the gestures of the branches, and you handled those bright highlights very well! You also managed to keep some of the detail on the background trees on the right of the frame.
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to edit this photo. Here is my attempt. Processed in ACR and then PS
In ACR:
Exposure +1.25
Contrast -40
Highlights -100
Shadows + 100
White -10
Blacks +10
White Balance: Shade
Clarity: +40
Dehaze: +20
AI Denoise
In PS
I have uploaded a very small PS file with the layers.
