Castle Crag, The Lake District

Buono Estente,

My mother now lives up near the Lake District so when I go and visit her it's nice to go out for a few walks and try to snap some landscapes. The weather in the UK recently has been a bit on the wet side, but we did get a dry day at the very least so I took a few on a walk up to Castle Crag which is an interesting landscape with its history of slate quarrying ...

Typical Lakeland ladder stile ...

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I do like the composition in each of these shots.

However, I feel that a little bit more processing could really bring them to life.

A minute or so tweeking in LR shows what data is probably available in your raws which you could use to this advantage.

That's an impressive transformation, and I struggled with processing that one in particular. Do you mind sharing some of the processes that have been used so I can revisit?

Thanks very much for your time!

Owain Shaw wrote in post #16590895
That's an impressive transformation, and I struggled with processing that one in particular. Do you mind sharing some of the processes that have been used so I can revisit?

Thanks very much for your time!

Here are the settings I used from the Basic panel ( as they apply to your uploaded jpeg).

I'm still in the dark ages a bit, not really scratched the surface of the brushes, and not only is this the kicker to give them much more attention - I'm sort of kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Two minutes (myself, you may have spent longer and done a better job!) with two brushes (one-stop up and one-stop down) made a huge difference to that image.

I know how I'm spending the rest of my afternoon.

Thank you once again.

Night and day difference. Love it.

Hopefully the Moderation Team won't mind too much if I re-post some re-processed ones - still need to spend more time with colour photographs to get better with the brushes and using them properly. I've also done less than in the edit posted by DunnoWhen but I still appreciate the difference it has made to the image.

Black and White ones I feel like I've got away with being more crude ... subtlety with sliders is something I'm still getting towards beginner level with, let alone mastering.

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