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Thanks Amilcar and Henri, that's what I wanted to know, and I agree.

Thank you Rosmini. I can only hope I do the scene justice.

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Excellent cropping here!! An excellent image! If your computer is working now, try this in PS.

Image->adjustments->curves; click BLK eyedropper on btm. right; put the dropper cursor in the barn door at lower right and click. This will set the shadow area in the door to the black on your curve. If the image looks too dark after that, then reset the curve; try this with the curves (be sure to click the gradient on bottom so that white is on left): at the top right drag curve slightly to left, you will notice the effect here -- the image darkens; the same action with the lower left going towards right will lighten image. This is known as steepening the curve and, among other things, helps to add contrast to the image, find areas that can use some tonal tweaking (like correcting highlight blowouts), and is a good exercise in learning PS tools.

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Very good composition and tone work. It looks like it is a crop of something larger -- some detail in this view. Great work!

Very nice. I wonder how it would look with some of the foreground cropped and a neutral gradient on the foreground to darken it? Also, this, to me, would benefit from from shadow contrast work to bring out details in the bales and on the left side of barn.

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Carsten and Henri:

 

Have at this one

Carsten you really keep me busy; but its worth it!!

Thanks everyone. 3 year olds are like flying bugs and the D200 does ok at point and shoot.

Thank you Jim

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Very beautiful landscape. A neutral gradient on the sky at about 40% opacity as an overlay should provide more detail and richness to the background. The foreground is superb.

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Indeed, I have a learning experience here. Stitching images: How much image overlap do you think is optimal? Do you use Canon Zoom Browser, which I find superior to PS? What are some good stitching tools?

This is normal blending mode. This tool has a learning curve -- I'm still reading documentation and tutorial. But I liked this initial output.

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Also, this is my first attempt at stitching photos. I find that PS is much better at stitching horizontally vs vertically. The subtle details of the gray clouds came out well, I think.

Thank you Sarah,

The whole area in the background is a "wasteland" created by a vine called Kudzu.

Kudzu can grow 4 feet a day in the summer and will overtake just about anything including houses. In this case, the tree is being pulled down by the Kudzu vines.

Indeed! This was taken near my house about 10,00 feet above sea level and there is very little air, so the direct sunlight, the sun was just above center, gives colors more brilliance. But I did use LAB color adjustments which may give the "manipulated" look.

Thank you Carsten, I always appreciate your comments. This photo, as a facsimile of reality, captures the real view almost perfectly -- the contrast of the mountain scenes reely look this way.

Thanks Carsten

I used LAB color adjustments to get more yellow and blue. And how is multiple image composting done by hand?