Meare's Island Mushrooms with repost

Nice picture, good contrasts, lovely earth tones. The PS work looks natural to me!

hm....what did you burn and dodge? lol

i like it alot i've a big fan of intimate landscapes like these...
i really like the composition, all mushrooms are totally in the frame...all sharp, the color is great!
lol, i probably would've done it differently, but probably in the direction of not as good

nice work
Vito

I like this! Nice composition and colors. It must be a typo that you handheld this for 4 seconds. It looks pretty sharp to me.

Great composition,

Steve-Just kidding about the handheld part!
I wanted to see if anyone caught it! I am offering a prize, but it has no monetary value Just a heartfelt congratulations!!!

Cool!

Lisa

Tom stole my words Lovely earthy tones. Looking straight down brings an interesting and unique view. Well placed in the frame. Beautiful Barry.

Danny.

Yes, ........ love those rich earth tones, the lighting, the comp, and outstanding details.
What's not to like about it? A memorable shot indeed!
Certainly no nits here. Love it Barry!!!

Barry this is perfect for me !!! No nits !!!

For burning (don't know if it could be any better) try select color go to the black cannel and adjust the black. Seems to work very well !!!!

Great image!!!!

I am impressed. Good job, especially if the editing you mention was substantial.

Comp and crop look great to me. I really like it. Lovely earthy colours as mentioned and as I see no evidence of the burn and dodge I don't think it could be better. Doesn't look like it needs anything else.
Cheers,

I too love the earth tones and the wonderful comp. Very well done.
Thanks for posting,

Well, I thought it would be fun to show you where I started with this image. I rotated, cropped, sharpened, and framed this one and converted it to sRGB so it would be a fair comparison to the first one. I wanted to make the mushrooms pop out from the background, so I increased the contrast and brightness selectively on the mushrooms and decreased the contrast and brightness of the forrest floor (background needles). I've really been trying to learn Photoshop over the past year, and I feel like I've progressed from the kindergarten level to about third grade during this time. :roll: I think the best part is that I don't hate using the program like I used to, and I think I am actually beginning to enjoy processing my images. I'm always interested in any tips or techniques which more experienced hands find successful and in learning to identify problem areas in my images which I may not be aware of. Feel free to repost if you would like to demonstrate anything. And thanks for all the nice comments!

Alfred-I don't think I follow your method. Are you going to: select>color range> highlights? Then do you do a levels or curves or burn tool on it?

I think the important elements stand out nicely