Originally posted by Bob Harris This was a quick snap end of the day that was handheld. I edited it using Picasa, a free editing program and didn't really do a lot to the photo. I am just a regular guy who enjoys sharing our travels in our motorhome full time. Like I have said before, my photos aren't the best, but I try to have an interesting thread to encourage others to travel and enjoy themselves through the photos I post. Thanks for commenting, it is appreciated that you are polite and considering. Bob
Again, excellent photo. I think whatever you did in Picasa gave a good result, but it does look like the background colors were compressed by the JPG format or by Picasa. I'm curious to see what it looked like prior to any editing.
My preference for my own processing is to fix photographic errors (tilt, white balance, high ISO noise) and bring out extra detail (boost shadows, cut through haze). In that canyon photo the distant haze helps to make the photo, so my usual "process to remove haze" would be very wrong.