I took this shot this evening, with the molehills heading off for the sunset. Unfortunately, I blew the highlights in the sky behind, so to save something of the shot, I decided to play a little.
What I did (after levelling the horizon) was to select the bottom 2/3ds of the shot (the grass) and applied a fairly radical curve adjustment on the green channel to lighten it up and saturate at the same time. After that, I applied a small amount of USM sharpening to just that selection.
I then inversed the selection for the top third (tree line and sky). I then cut that selection and pasted to a new layer. I made a duplicate of that layer and applied a 50px Gaussian blur to it. I selected that blurred layer and pasted it in top of the layer I just copied it from. I then set the layer's blending mode to "multipy" (this is what's known by some as a "digi sandwich"). I deleted the now unused layers and flattened, resulting in what you see below.
This was a bit rough and ready as the boundary between the two layers can be tidied up. At least it made something out of an otherwise boring shot.
Comments are very welcome.
