... I picked this title because this photo reminds me of that childrens movie. :-)
Had fun taking this shot. It was in the mid 30's and the wind was blowing like heck! Cold, cold, COLD!!! On top of the cold I discovered the cokin filter holder adapter for my 10-20 was bent so I ended up hand-holding a ND Grad filter in front of the lens.
Post-processing
Sony IDC - RAW -> TIFF
PSP X2
- crop
- remove sensor dust spots
- resize
- DNR (40,0,0,30,0)
- sharpen
- levels (12,120,229)
- duplicate layer
- histogram (0,1,215)
- set layer to 51% opacity
- merge all
- crop
- clarify +1
- dup layer
- Virtual Photographer (style, orig, clear)
- dup layer
- HMS (30,0,0)
- layer to 71% opacity
- merge all
- dup layer
- NI
- USM (.35,100,10) +luminance
- resize
- USM (.35,100,10) +luminance
- borders
- save as JPG
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Thanks for all of the comments. This photo isn't too far from what it looked like and the original capture. Levels brought up the shadows some, but the color was left alone (no saturation boost) - it was truly an amazing scene! I really liked the way the valley in the lower-left was illuminated by the rising sun.
6 - Beautiful scene and I really like the way the clouds can be seen behind the first mountain, in almost 3D - however the unnaturalness of the green in the trees, especially on the fore mountain detracts from the overall beauty of the image. Whilst this grows on you a little, I can't bring it into another type of image (eg: surreal, fantasy, etc (perhaps as your title suggests)) while the rest of the scene hasn't quite pushed any similar color/processing boundaries - if that makes sense.
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