Local Park

[jonrayner]

OK, here is my first effort since starting the course. See what you think....

[gjtoth]

OK, here is my first effort since starting the course. See what you think....

WOW! Very nice!

[pieinyourgilles]

awesome photo. keep up the good work

[Snappers]

Glad you figured out how to upload Jon.
The pic is excellent. Great forground interest with a clear background too and the sky detail is very nice.

Is this an untouched photo and did you use any filters when taking it?

[jonrayner]

I did not use any filters as I don't own any yet (working on that!), but I did 'tweak' it in photoshop elements, just to accentuate the sky.

I feel like a cheat, but I liked the end result!

[jonrayner]

Thank you for the kind words everyone.

[Snappers]

No don't feel like a cheat, the picture looks great and like I have said before, the modern "softwear" is like the Darkroom of times gone by whereby people would work their magic in the darkroom to get the results they require, we now just use the software to do this for us.:)

[LensBaby]

Yeah Ansel Adams dodged and burned all of his photos! So was that cheating also? Its kinda funny to think that his photos were not like that when he took them. So dont feel like a cheat! Your photos are great!

[janine]

i think its gorgeous!!!!!!!!!