Have I made a decent job of this?

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Processing is a weakness of mine. Usually I just give my pictures a crop, curves adjustment, sharpen and maybe saturation boost because that's about all I know how to do. On this one I thought I'd test myself and see if I could get away with more. Have I done it well, or does what I've done stick out like a sore thumb?


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I had two shots, one where I'd not used a strong enough grad and blown the sky even more than here, one where I'd messed up the comosition a bit but used a stronger grad and not done a bad job with the sky.
I've merged the two together, but couldn't get them to quite line up properly. A bit of stretching here, some careless cloning there and I was left with this. Does it work?

I guess this is HDR the long way round...

Any tips & pointers appreciated
 
The sky looks dramatic moving in from the left and the composition is good, lots to see and think about. The colours look a little pale and the shot is IMO is over sharpened. I do like the light source entering from the right it seems to balance the overall picture.
 
mastertrinity said:
it looks very nice and the best thing is that it doesn't look edited but the contrast in the sky is abit over epxosed one side and under exposed the other
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I see what yoiu mean about the sky. It was a rediculously contrasty scene and I've already darkened the right side about as much as I feel I can get away with. I actually quite like the left as dark as that- it was a hell of a stormy day and it is reasonably close to what I remember it looking like.
 
I quite like it. It would be interesting to see the 2 shots you used.

You may want to have a look at this forum for some advice on retouching. It's a new forum but may be a great source of info, tips and advice.
 
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