Spanish Peaks

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One of my favorite places to go anytime of the year! It always provides beautiful scenery. This was taken on the way up to views of the Spanish Peak Mountains in Montana.

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Nikon z8, Nikon 24-120mm lens, 62mm, F10, 1/125, ISO 64


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Sue I like the photo that have many nice details that fill this great landscape. For me these details could be more evident and enjoyable with a lower color saturation especially of green and blue. That’s only my opinion.

Love that location Sue! That whole area is full of photo ops yet difficult to do it justice. One thing you might try for us as viewer is to save the image at 2048 pixels on the long side. You’re losing a lot of detail by reducing it to 1000. Looks like it was near the middle of the day, which makes it a bit tougher to come away with great images. Long shadows make for more compelling shots! I probably wouldn’t hurt to reduce the blues in the background and/or add some dehazing back there. Keep up the good work!

Paul… this is why I get so confused. I was saving images at 2048 pixels on the long side. and then read an article that I should leave that blank when exporting. :slight_smile:
So I have reset it again.

What do you do for resolution. I had it set at 700 and that is probably way too high.

Thanks Sue

Here it is again…. 2048 long side, resolution 300, and no color enhancements. What you see is what you get. :slight_smile:

Now you’re talking! I use300 as well. Do you use Lightroom? If so, you might try a linear gradient from the top down. Bring it just past the top third of your image and see what it does to the sky and slightly hazy mountains.