This image was way OE. Was shot with a 5D(clasic), 300mm f/4L IS @ f/5.6, ISO 125, Tv @ 125/sec, AWB, Faithfull, As Shot, Metering Center Weighted, center focus point (best I remember). Don't remember the Ex. Comp, settings, may show up with post (LR3 beta). Made lots of local brush adj.,and curves adj. and the usual slider type adj. LR3. stopped running a couple of times there towards the end (RAM).
I have looked at this so much now, I'm not sure what I think! What do you think?
Looks good to me too but I'll be picky for a moment: the blur of the background/trees seem to be incongruent with the blur of the track and wall. Since the trees are most distant, they would trace the largest arc which is not represented by the blur...at least I do not see that movement. Then again, maybe I am totally wrong.
The background was one of the "Local Brush" adj. that I desat. quie abit and lowered the contrast and just about everything you could in the local adj.. The focus point was sharpened, etc., to make it stand out.
The original CR2 file was imported to LR3 and converted to a DNG ( no sidecar to worry about). I will look for the Orig., and rename it, (I don't want to resrt mine) and covert and post it as a jpg and look at maybe posting the DNG.
I take some "non recoverable " and do a Fresco once and a while. I would suggest a litltle noise reduction and mabe play with a drastic curve adjustment,
