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all thoughts, comments and critiques are greatly appreciated - thanks!!

This is a great shot, Andrew! Those bushes in the foreground really make it. Very nice location.

 

But aside from the sharpening issue arising from compression after downsizing, there seems to be a problem with the color space. I've changed the color space to sRGB, and sharpened it a bit with a USM.

thanks ashutosh - i agree with the fact that the original is quite soft, your sharpening is a great improvement. the color change i like, but think it's perhaps a bit much. my digital darkroom skills are very amateur - can you please explain the difference between changing the color space and tweaking levels and saturation to get the desired look. thanks for you constructive criticism. regards, andrew.

Hey Andrew, when I opened this image in CS2, it had no assigned color profile. Then I assigned it an sRGB color profile, and this is exactly how it appeared. I made no changes to color, saturation, etc. etc. The assignment of color profile seems to have added some color casts along the left part of the horizon and sky. I can't really pinpoint the cause, since I don't have the original with me, nor do I know the camera profile.

 

The only thing I've done is applied an unsharp mask.