Mwnt...... in Wales

Thanks for the kind words on my page the other day. Since you said you are here to learn, let's try to be honest about this one for example. Verdict shall be: wrong use of Photoshop. This is no longer a landscape for me. I can see that the sky's saturation is much higher than the saturation of the far left hill. I can see you burned the roofs in a very rough manner. I can see some burning marks on the grass of the hill around the grey house roof. I can see you burned as well the white front facade of the nearest house. I can see that contrast was very low that day - due to a cloudy weather probably - and yet, there is a strong sun hiting the clouds from the side. I see clouds are very low, almost too low to be true, and this last thing, once added to the lighting conflicts, indicates that you most probably took this sky from another picture and added it in here. I couldn't enlarge the picture enough to be sure, but the abnormally sharp outline left of the top left hill as well as the other outlines seem to confirm that the sky was pasted.

Pasting a sky is not something wrong per se - I've done it in some occasions for advertising work, but it's not an easy task, and you need to be very particular about the consistency of light between ground and sky, or else you are bound to end up with a landscape that screams " hey, I'm no real landscape, yaknow...! I'm born in a lab and my nurses were robots !"...:-)