Late Afternoon Shower

[Chris Calohan]

I spent about a week working through some of the TK8 (Tony Kuyper) panels using Dave Kelly’s youtube tutorials. This is image was a step by step of “Finding the Right Light.” I did do some modifications after the guidelines to strengthen the foreground separation of the low grasses to the higher ones and tweaked the rain area a bit more for better contrast. I also used one of his other tutorials on Orton sharpening but I find the end result to be overly dark, so I lowered the opacity on the dark Orton mask.

I've included the original SOOC image.

[Peter McLennan]

Great work, Chris.  Very generous of you to share the before and after. Thank you. Most instructive and most appealing.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I completely agree with Peter.

[degrub]

the second is sublime.

[Bob_B]

the second is sublime.

Exactly my thought; nicely done.

[nirpat89]

The second is the untouched one, I presume. 

[Chris Calohan]

The second is the untouched one, I presume.

You assume correctly.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Punchier or milder, different interpretations. When I click to zoom in on #1, it looks over sharpened, but I like the tonality.

[Cornfield]

Looks a bit crunchy to me.  Overdone in the processing with lots of halos.