Granite Mountain on fire

[retired2AZ]

This is a picture of the Doce fire that has been burning this week in Prescott, AZ. I would appreciate comments and suggestions to improve the image, particularly the foreground. Thanks.

[Digital]

Is that lens flare? Using a lens hood may help. It is a nice photo.

Bruce

[ANSORB]

Assuming you want to know what post processing could do for this image we need to know which program you have and how familiar you are with it. I can tell you it is possible to get quite a lot of detail back with Photoshop (even from this small jpeg) but as that is the only program I use I can't help you any others. I am sure there are others on CiC who can.

[Geoff F]

You can't do much with that black foreground, Carol, except crop slightly tighter to reduce the amount. Possibly lose a little from the left side as well, if you want to retain the same image size ratio.

[ANSORB]

You can't do much with that black foreground, Carol, except crop slightly tighter to reduce the amount. Possibly lose a little from the left side as well, if you want to retain the same image size ratio.

You can do quite a lot with it. Here is a quick 5 minute Photoshop edit. Not perfect by a long way but it does do what's asked. If this was a valuable photo and the only one Carol had and is unrepeatable then she may feel an attempt at salvage is worthwhile. You could do better on a larger file.

The white line at the base of the mountain, BTW, is just my bad use of the paintbrush.

[Ken Curtis]

Hi Carol. John is correct in that Photoshop can probably bring out some detail in the darker foreground. If it were my photo, I would leave the top alone and only lighten the foreground a bit, just enough to see some detail.

I would also use the spot healing tool to remove the tiny white dot in the sky.