Summertime in Northern-Norway (X-T20 & 14mm f2.8)

Bob, I think you are misreading my intent and the sequence of the posts. I saw the images and complemented them. They are very nice work, especially in composition and his good eye - nice scenes that begged to be captured.

My only comment was on the post processing and it wasn't negative.

I mentioned that one could do a lot with the RAW image in shot like that. You can go a lot of directions because there are 8 or 10 stops of DR range in that image.

I explained what I thought might work on the image that could (maybe) help it. The OP thanked me and gave it another attempt and posted another JPEG export from RAW, opening up the foreground a stop or two and who knows what else. He probably played with the temp and colors too, which is fine. I didn't like the result when I saw it and thought the original was actually better. Others said so and I agreed.

I wasn't in some way backtracking on my advice.

It is hard to say exactly what one would do in LR to improve an image unless you have the RAW file, and even then pro photographers with years of post-processing experience can disagree on the results. LR and PS provide huge power over landscape images and there is almost nothing that can't be manipulated in that regard.

You know that the results of post-processing are often disagreed on by photographers with varied tastes. Some will say "beautiful." Others will say "plastic" or "over-processed".

I have edited hundreds of thousands (half a million?) RAW images in LR and PS. Early on I attended workshops and seminars and completed countless tutorials and books on LR and PS. I worked hard to learn how to do it and I'm still learning.

So I don't mind sharing a few tricks or ideas on what might improve an image in LR. If I had that RAW, there is a strong probability I could do some things to it in PS and LR that would likely improve it, at least in my eye. But I don't know that for sure.

Read my posts again. I think you are over-reacting. You act like I'm abusing the poor OP. I'm just trying to help the guy.

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
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