This morning view from my office

[GregL]

Here is the view from my office window this morning. Untouched out of the camera (apart from the frame).

Critique more than welcome.

Also, what if anything would you do in pp to improve this?

[AntZ]

Pretty cool for straight out of the camera. I like the colours. I assume that is mist that is giving it quite a hazy look? With this kind of picture, my personal preference would be to darken things up a bit, by reducing brightness. I would increase the blacks and reduce the brightness even more in the foreground, even to the extend of losing detail. Then maybe increase the saturation.

[Marko]

There is so much that you could do to a shot like this but frankly, I really like it the way it is; I'm not sure I'd do anything at all.

[Mad Aussie]

I'm with Antz ... the bottom of frame begs for some darkening. Either curves treatment to darken all the blacks or perhaps just a burn along the bottom.

Cool shot.

[kiley9806]

can i get a job working for you greg!?! ;)
beeeautiful...

[Gem]

I like it as is but agree with Antz. A little darkening wouldn't be too bad.

[GregL]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Marko, I liked it "out of the box" as well. I thought it might be a good one for me to play with as I'm trying to learn and develop my PP: Thanks AntZ and everyone else for the comments.

Have a look at this one. I adjusted the levels, brought the left up (don't you love my technical terms) and lowered the right side. I also adjust the curves into a slight "S". I looked at raising the saturation a little but decided not to as I thought the extra dynamic range had brought up the colours sufficiently.

Better? Worse? Although I liked the first one, I think I like this one better. More comments/suggestions?

[Mad Aussie]

I like the level of blackness now.

I'd possibly try to burn in that ridge of cloud that runs across the frame a bit.

And maybe even backing the saturation off just a little.