I remembered the first photo I posted to an online forum. It is a sunset photo of a distant Mt Warning in New South Wales, Australia. I now know after examining the filename it was the 191^st photo I took with a DSLR. I was pretty chuffed with the results at the time. Looking back I’m embarrassed to say, but willing to admit it looks flat, dark and boring; a far cry from the warm mood and gently rolling hills I was trying to express.

For fun I decided to try improving on the image. Surprisingly I still had the RAW file on my computer. For a more subtle mood I started with a lower overall contrast, and enhanced the tonal separation in the shadows and midtones. This produced more detail and microcontrast. To emphasise three-dimensional depth, contrast was increased at the border of light and shade as the sun washed over the apex of the side-lit hills. The colour temperature was made slightly warmer and enhanced. Finally resizing and sharpening was performed.

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