landscape by the roadside

[mokenny]

Sometimes you get lucky with a landscape right by the road side. This is a farm by a busy road outside of Nashville, TN.
It was one of those days, I had my camera with me on the way to work. I stopped by the road side and literally grabbed a quick one.
Which of the two versions is better ?
Thanks.
Mo Kenny

[Jeremy Roussak]

The b&w has a lot more definition in the clouds and a lot more drama and I prefer it. As a photograph of a rural idyll, though, it fails.

Jeremy

[Paulo Bizarro]

I like both, but prefer the B&W (even though it shows some vertical banding/artefacts? in the sky?). The colour version also has some magenta cast in the clouds.

[thierrylegros396]

If you use Lightroom, the magenta cast is very simple to remove with the brush tool, desaturation or opposite color (colorwheel).

Have a Nice Day.

Thierry

[francois]

I prefer the B&W version. The drama is heightened and there's no color cast (easily corrected as Thierry said).

[PeterAit]

With all due respect, both images seem way over-processed. Perhaps it's the on=screen reproduction of a web image, but the colors do not look real, particularly the clouds. To my eyes, it's garish and fake looking. The B&W is over-dramatized, making a pretty, bucolic scene into something it is not. Sorry if I seem over-critical, but this sort of over-processing ruins more photos than anything else, IMO.

[luxborealis]

Design-wise, I think having more foreground would give the image more balance.

[mokenny]

Thank you.
I guess I cropped the foreground too much.
The color cast was due to using presets in Nik plug-ins.

[mokenny]

Appreciate your comments. I went back and looked at the photo on my monitor, they do not look that garish. I guess when I applied sharpening under Nik plug-in, I must have used the preset for inkjet printing instead of publishing to the web.