Creede - before and after

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RGS

RGS

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Here's a view of Creede, CO, from the highway coming into town. Maybe I shouldn't show this but I thought it might be interesting. The first one is right out of the camera and the second one is after processing. I hope you find them interesting. As you can see the air is very hazy (dusty actually) and it was shot at 300mm so the dusty light is a big challenge.

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Superb processing! What processing s/w did you use? I particularly like the way you emphasized the shadowed area in the foreground with the lighter area on the rise. And the warmth of the light is nice also.
 
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Butlerkid said:
Superb processing! What processing s/w did you use? I particularly like the way you emphasized the shadowed area in the foreground with the lighter area on the rise. And the warmth of the light is nice also.
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Thank. It was mostly Lightroom. I add graduated density (linear) to the top and bottom of the frame. I also added some green saturation and some dehaze to the bottom graduation (the distance of the 300mm lens in the dusty atmosphere made the whole image a bit hazy). The large rock face in the center area has a SLIGHT increase in yellow and exposure. That was done with an off-center radial gradient to appear as light coming in from the left of the image.
The power lines were removed in Photoshop and the final polish added in Topaz DeNoise.
 
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