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Another fantastic shot, Msomro! All of them are great. The banding is a huge problem, though. If you were to enter a print of this in any professional contest, the banding would disqualify it immediately. And, if we can see the banding on a small file jpeg upload, it will probably be much worse in a large print. I hate banding and in my experience it is nearly impossible to get rid of it. If someone could invent a good third party banding removal plugin, they'd make a fortune. Personally, I love the sharpness of this photo and I wouldn't touch the crop. However, I think the only way to save it is to cut out the sky completely and replace it with a completely flat, neutral grey or, better still, a non-banded sky from another photo. The only way you can get that is to use a non-processed sky. The moment you start changing levels, contrast, etc, the banding starts to emerge. I've even tried building a non-banded black to white gradient as an experiment and it simply doesn't work - no matter the size or the pixel density. I once ruined a terrific shot of mine by doing all the sharpening, levels, clarity, etc. which did wonders for the building and completely banded the small gradients that made up the clouds. I had to replace the sky entirely to fix it. What a drag! Instead of putting out new CS versions, Adobe ought to work on eliminating banding in its gradients.
Best of luck and Happy New Year!
Endre
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