I took this picture during sunrise time, in a field after the harvest. I wanted to share with the viewer the mood, and also the nice background of the field after the harvest in the frot, and the light fog in the horizon.

Technical specs: Aperture f16 | Shutter 1/8 Sec | ISO 100 | 22mm

I used exposure bracketing and merged in Lightroom HDR

For editing I used lightroom, and very minimal edits.

I’ll be happy to get feedback on what I can improve next time in this frame. Both on the subject selected, the compositions and edits.

Thanks a lot

Hi and welcome to the Real Critique. - I've spent some time just looking so this is my take on your image. I fould your image a little dull in the power and impact department. So this is what I Did - I first did some dodge and burn tool work to try and get that 3D look I then used Nik Tools Tonal Contrast to add texture and impact - Saturation +20 thank you for sharing.....

Hello,

in order to give you an alternative treatment, I have slightly increased the fog in your photo and cropped the image differently (golden spiral).

result:

Greetings

Udo

Evyatar,

I think the most important for an improvement is your composition. The most interesting part is the upper half and you don't need such a long foreground. I stretched and cropped a little bit. And after this I gave a fraction more power to your colours.  Not a perfect presentation but an idea in which way you also can think.

Theo L.

Thank you all for the feedback, very helpfull!

Dear Evyatar Seri,

I see a curved harvest cut, vastness, sunrise. I find it too much of a foreground for a sunrise shot, because it's featureless. Well almost, my interest goes to that hills on the right. With a steep shadow, these would become my picture, I'm into shapes. The bottom part is too bright, it distracts. If you tone it down by a gradient in LR or Adobe RAW filter, your frame becomes more balanced.

I see the sun, but it's quite small in your frame, using a wide angle. The trees fill the emptiness a it, but they're not enough to support a theme. I find the color tones quite incositant. The HDR merge sometimes  has these bizarre color compositions. Because more contrasty photos have more vivd colors, and flat, overexposed frames have rather low saturation, the outcome sometimes does not fit from tones. I'd try a wider crop and more consistant color temperatures. But fo a next shot, go for the hills. Shadows paint shapes, these could be awesome simply.

These pattern would probably also look good in a drone shot, ever thought about trying that?

I hope my comments are somehow usefull for you.

Best regards,

Mike

Hello Evyatar,

Thank you for submitting your photo to this forum. My predecessors have already said enough about the frame, so I will not expand on it. I changed the frame.

Your photo is very nostalgic, but in my opinion you did not use all the possibilities to emphasize the charm of this place and the moment of the setting sun. In my editing proposal, I highlighted the lonely tree by directing a streak of light at it to bring it out of the shadow. After all, it is this tree here that defines this photo and strongly embeds it in the space of this landscape. I performed this procedure in PSCC 2024 in Camera raw using a circular filter and increasing the brightness within this filter.

Additionally, I removed the disturbing stones in the foreground.

Of course, this is my suggestion for your photo.

Regards

Slawomir Kowalczyk - SC.

Thank you very much Mike and Slawomir!