Arkansas Valley Miscue

Coming home from the post office today, I noticed this fine view that I'd never photographed before. So I went home, got my camera and tripod, and went back. Made the photograph, though the light was considerably less spectacular by then.

Only when I brought it up in Photoshop later did I realize that lots of birds had been there ahead of me.

Oh well! Photoshop's LAB color and lightness corrections did very well with a dull image. I'll go back when the light is more dramatic (as it had been a few minutes earlier), and I'll find a better fencepost or none at all. I like the concept, and this image was mostly a test.



Same image, uncorrected but sharpened.