White (Before & After)

Today’s Before & After will be rather controversial, I suppose. Be warned. I took a drastic measure of changing the reality in a way I was not able to achieve in the camera. No change of point of view would help me to eliminate the third bush, and keep the other two in line, while leaving remaining plants on white, clean snowy background. Leaving alone the fact that the three bushes are not in the same distance from each other, which I fund particularly distracting. So I exported the image to Photoshop and carefully cloned out the third plant. In my personal opinion, it made a huge difference in the look of the image. The Clarity slider and adjustment of Luminosity selectively on Orange and Yellow just helped a little bit to darken the plants to make them stand out a bit better. I was considering turning it into Black & White for a moment, but decided I like warm colors of the grass more that I would like darker, but black in the converted image.
You can click on the images to see larger versions of them. Regardless if you agree with my changes to the original or not, share you thoughts in Comments!