Sunset 2

Exploring Photography: This week's topic is "Edited".

 

My camera takes poor photographs when the light is low....such as at dusk.

This was such am amazing surreal sunset with the rural colors of the dry grass along the dirt road , the vivid saturated green of the cane field , the layered haziness of the mountains in the background, against a pastel sunset. Its was so contradictory that I tried to capture it.

This is the edited version. Its still does not do it justice because you can't see the true tone of the grass.

I tried all the setting I could find on my 'point and shoot' camera, but nope. Low light does not produce the best image.

My camera is a Canon digital IXUS55

The original is along side this picture. It is very dark yet in reality you could still all the colors. I can't wait until I can afford a wacky-do SLR camera that I have more control of the amount of light I can allow in.

 

Anyway, this is an example of 'edited'. Steps I took to attempt to bring up the true colors I saw.

resize; levels; hue/saturation/lightness; layers and spot editing; sharpen

 

Done