I don't normally get involved in this type of discussion because I expect that you presented the image the way you want it and I respect that. But in the spirit of my learning something - what I see in the histogram (I assume that this is a luminosity histogram) is that a majority of the pixels are in the lower half of the histogram. The colors histogram show that the blue and red channels have a large number of pixels pushed up against the left side of the histogram. Of course the histograms are image dependent and don't mean much out of context but in this fully lit daylight image, having a majority of the pixels in the darker tones seems odd and the background seems flat (underexposed). In this case brightening or an inverse S curves modification provides a more believable (again IMO) image. I have take the liberty below just to demonstrate what I mean.
Cheers,
Chuck
Yes, and it's very, very, very bad form to edit someones image without their permission. IF you truly respected my image, they would not have "taken the liberty to modify it". I'm going to say this one time nicely. Please delete the modified version of
MY image. I'm sorry you don't like the way I processed it, but in the end, it's the way I want to present it. If you'd like to present something differently, then you're more than welcome to travel to that location, capture the image and process it any way you please.
Yes, you've very much touched a never with me, not in the comments, but it altering
MY art. And yes, I feel that altering and re-posting my work IS copyright infringement.
From the forum registration agreement.
You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material
I would say, that you didn't get written consent from the copyright owner (me) to edit and post this.