This one was shot with my Nikon 16-85 at 85mm, doing my best to frame it the way I wanted without getting too many brambles in the shot. I also couldn't step forward anymore, which would normally solve the problem because at the end of the the road I was on there was a bunch of construction, and they we're already looking at me like a crazy for parking and wandering their way. My iso was set at 200, and I literally did such a minimal job on editing, I'm pretty stoked. Heres the original.
I adjusted the exposure, with my curve focus on highlights, I also adjusted the clarity, and I think I may have darkened my blues just a wee bit to bring out the mountains under the clouds. But thats about it, oh and I corrected my horizon. I do my best at the time, but its one of my pet peeves I always notice on other peoples photos is that no one pays attention to the horizon being slanted off. I contemplated cropping out the bottom, where the brambles are, but I'm just not a cropper, it just didn't look right to me then. My frame would have been compromised.
I do love this photo though. Growing up on the island I've always loved the way the horizon is always blue, and the mountains are all just solid, with different levels of blue indicating their distance. When I was young, I would always draw a landscape that had islands coming in from the sides and tipping down to the ocean, green on top, and with a yellow, sandy base. I always tried to think of something else to draw, but would normally, when put on the spot in school, draw the same thing, and now that I've gone and come back, I realize what an amazing spot in the world this is, and why it's ingrained in me.
Till next time.
