Before I started learning about how to take good landscape images, I always thought a bright blue sky was perfect...now that I am a little farther down the road on my photographic journey I know that clouds make a sky much more interesting. I could take a stab at adding them with some cloud brushes in Photoshop, which thanks to my friend and mentor I do have, but decided to be real for this post! I was so happy to finally get a chance to do some shooting on our April 2007 trip to Germany after several days of flying down the Autobahn at rather high speeds. Our American friend who married a German girl and lives there now took us to Fussein to visit a castle and on the way we passed this idyllic scene. I was still shooting in jpg then. Camera: Nikon D70, 18 - 70mm lens at f22, 1/60th, ISO 200, in jpg
Post processing: Levels adjustment layer to set black and white points, Curves for Contrast, a Selective Color layer to add cyan but reduced the opacity, Touch of light on trees, Boost action by Pioneer Woman at 40% opacity, sharpened with the High Pass filter.
