Adhika,
A fine portrait of the JT where it’s displayed and composed well in it’s “environment.”
Exposure wise, it’s a bit bright and “pale” - at least to me. I think Paul did well to address it.
I’ve got a version and tackled it differently from an exposure point of view. I used one of my favorite techniques of utilizing a LAB Color layer, copying back to the original and using a blending mode of Multiply (in this case…) I wrote a topic in the Post Processing discussion a while ago.
Similar results here with an increase in contrast, drop in luminosity and pop in color. Have no idea what the normal color of the tree trunk should be, it was coming out a bit on the red side, so I tried to compensate a little there.
