After the harvest

[LenR]

A late autumn capture out on the prairie.
Grain stubble in the last rays of the setting sun under stormy skies.
Another image from recent archives.
C&C welcome.......

Grain Stubble by Len Reeves, on Flickr

[Round Tuit]

Nice graphic composition. The layered clouds work well at emphasizing the horizontal vs vertical contrast. I suppose that a clear blue sky would have worked as well by creating a strong colour contrast.

[LenR]

Andre, Thank you for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated.

[billtils]

I keep coming back to this one ... not sure about the treatment of the sky. On the one hand the softness is a pleasing contrast to the stubble, but part of me keeps wanting to see more contrast in the clouds in order to meet the "stormy" ...

In any case, I do like it

[LenR]

Bill, Thanks for your input. Much appreciated. I had looked at varying degrees of contrast for the sky. This seemed to work reasonably well. On second thoughts perhaps darkening the skies a little more may be beneficial........

[Round Tuit]

As much as I hate to disagree with Bill, I think that this sky is too smooth to turn into a more stormy sky by darkening it.

[billtils]

As much as I hate to disagree with Bill, I think that this sky is too smooth to turn into a more stormy sky by darkening it.

Life would be very dull (as would our images) if we all saw things the same way, so well done you!

[DanK]

Let me suggest an alternative. I see two things right away that could be tweaked. First, the bottom third is all about the lines, but they are a little washed out. So my first thought was to increase contrast a little in the yellow area at the bottom.

Second, blue and yellow are complementary, so heightening that contrast might work. I selected sky, added a selective color layer, pulled yellow all the way down and cyan all the way up. The effect is subtle, but it makes the sky bluer.

Then I darkened the sky a little bit with a curves layer.

Not a real edit, but I think it shows some directions worth playing with.

[LenR]

Dan, thanks for taking the time to offer some editing suggestions. Subtle as you say......

[billtils]

Nicely done Dan - I like it.