[ray]

When we reached here we had lost the blue sky so i played around with this one this is what i came up with

[water]

Another good one Ray.I like the way you have 'arranged' things composition wise and the letter-box[ish] style suits also.

[ray]

Thank you water i keep trying i hope to get there someday

[Rob Barron]

You are too hard on yourself Ray, there is nothing wrong with what you have done here.

The sky is not important here so that isn't really an issue. If you want an idea for improving it, I would look at the various tiers that are showing as the spurs of the hills go back. I've done a very quick pimp just to show you what I mean. I stress this is not a carefully done adjustment, just a few minutes to give you the principle.

Each of the four main layers now gets progressively faded to give a better sense of death. I copied the layer (Ctrl+J) and used a layer mask to adjust only the area I wanted. I then copied that layer (this also copies the layer mask) and added to the layer mask so that only the next tier was affected and lightened it, and same again for the last tier I used.

Hope you can see what I mean.
Cheers,
Rob

[JMitchell]

Not sure that I agree completely with Rob's pimp, although it would be fine as a photo, the original is great.
Really like this one Robbo, good comp, great colours and good exposure

[ray]

Thanks J

[Rob Barron]

Just to point out Jack, my pimp is NOT what I was trying to show. I tried to explain that but maybe didn't get my point across. I was pointing out the principle of strengthening the various levels of the scene to give it greater depth. I did the pimp in less than 5 minutes and didn't take a lot of care over it. I just wanted to point out the what and how.

Cheers,
Rob

[JMitchell]

Ok fair enough, I didn't really understand that. BTW I just noticed a pretty good typo in your explanation

Originally Posted by Rob Barron

Each of the four main layers now gets progressively faded to give a better sense of death.

Hmmmm....