San Fransisco de Asis Mission Church, Ranchos de Taos, NM
I backed off on the clouds in this one, but much of the color comes from using a CPL. And honestly, I rather like angry clouds. Given the oversaturated crap that seems to garner so much attention (here, on FB and IG, etc) I figured, why not be a bit extreme? I can do worse than polarize opinion, right?
At the beginning of time there was absolutely nothing. And then it exploded! - Terry Pratchett
Shadowfixer1 wrote: I should have been more specific. I thought the clouds were fine. The blue part of the sky is what I was referring to. I like strong blues but these were a little extreme in my opinion and it's just that. An opinion.
And it's much appreciated. I'll have to play further; I usually take the deepening of the blue along with the detail in the clouds (thank you, Clarity). I guess I see this as comparable to darkening a sky when editing B&W. Thank you, nonetheless. I'll have to engage some masking, I think.
And now I want to leave the pigeon alone
Not sure what else one could do with the shadows... I suppose I could deepen them, but there's already a lot of burning going on.
I'm definitely in love with the B&W.
goodoldroute15 wrote: I like this one....(I like them all). This has a lot of mood...looks great BTW.....always leave the pigeon.
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