‘Red Sky at the 12 Apostles’ - Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia
photo by Daniel Seßler
website - https://www.instagram.com/daniel.sessler/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/l-XiTqV2BkA
A nice atmospheric photo. The best thing about it is, of course, the red stripe in the sky.
There was a pretty bad vignette here that got removed, and I also increased the sharpness to bring out more detail.
‘Return to the Wild’ - Shire of Yarra Ranges, Victoria, Australia
photo by Mitch Green
website - https://mitchgreenphotos.com/
original image - https://i.redd.it/cj7g6szbr3181.jpg
Not much to say about this one, I like the atmosphere, and the trunks with peeled-off bark.
I increased the contrast, that's about it.
‘Glow on the Pavement’ - Tesselated Pavement, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, Australia
photo by Robert Garrad
website - https://500px.com/p/robertwgarrad?view=photos
original image - https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/201596761/q%3D80_m%3D1500_of%3D1/v2?sig=347714a7539f344d35370b210c8ca90267a2f736c7cb537fb3abc39d4ac3070e
Contrary to what it looks like, this is a natural formation. Strange stuff, but beautiful, especially when you have a spectacular sunset and clouds for reflections.
I edited the colors here, because the original looked like the aftermath of a nuclear explosion to me. So I set them to something I think is more plausible.
‘Great Wall’ - The rock formations atop Mount Emily known as ‘The Great Wall of China,’ Flinders Ranges, South Australia
photo by Dylan Toh
website - https://www.everlookphotography.com/
original image - https://everlookphotography.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/great-wall_october20063952.jpg
And more weird stuff. To me, this looks like a rocky dune, and some of those rocks look like peeled onions. But it's a beautiful photo with amazing colors. I reframed it so that the two onion rocks in the foreground aren't right in the middle, and got rid of some negative space on the right at the same time.
I also added some clouds, but I tried to keep them whispy and subtle so they are just an enhancement to the existing sky, rather than a full- fledged sky replacement. And I removed the vignette (see Pet Peeve #2).
Totem Pole, Tasman National Park, Tasmania, Australia
photo by brodme
website - https://www.reddit.com/user/brodme/
original image - https://i.redd.it/0edf4msx9tp71.jpg
This is a photo by the reddit user brodme. I don’t have any credit beyond that. The first of many weird/impressive rock formations I am going to post - I like them.
Reframed this from a portrait photo - it works better as the original portrait, but I'm not going to look at my laptop sideways, so it is what it is. Lowered the contrast a bit to bring out the detail out of the shadows, and warmed up the image slightly to emphasize the low sun.
