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Hi Louis,
This is such a great little slice of fall. Nice framing with the fence and the colors are rich and vibrant. It is looking a little flat and lacking sparkle, so I brought it into Photoshop and did some work to bring it to life -
Nothing too fussy, just used luminosity and color masking to bring up contour and separate the shades of yellow in the trees. Unfortunately the fence posts are really underexposed and the shadows are pretty blocked up so I couldn’t raise them enough to keep them from having so much visual weight. They work as framing elements quite well, but I wish they had more shadow information.
It still needs some exposure or brightening even after my edit, but you get the idea if you want to have a go at it yourself.
It’s really not that hard, Louis! You didn’t do much wrong in camera, don’t be too hard on yourself. Really. I could have done this in Lightroom, too, with similar effect. Just a matter of adding some luminosity to the lighter yellows, lowering the luminosity of darker yellows, lifting the shadows overall and the exposure a bit. If you don’t use Lightroom, what I just wrote can be done in pretty much every RAW editor out there. I just used Photoshop because it’s easier for files not in my catalog.
