Nepal – DPS Monthly Edit February 2010

Another DPS monthly critique and edit challenge. Another picture not taken by me, only edited by me. This time, the task was far more difficult for me to approach, as on the first glance, I didn’t like the image at all. What was bothering me were the hanging pieces of fabric, worn and far too colorful to my taste. However, I operated under the assumption that they are there for a reason, and decided to go with them. Mostly because cloning them out requires too much patience, which I don’t have ;).

I looked at different cropping though,  and decided to put more focus on sky and the far right, highest peak. The easiest way to do it was to make it portrait. I opened shadows by making a the single image-HDR, and added a lot of blacks to recover lost contrast. A bit of vignette to put focus on snow-covered mountain and rags. The final touch was to lower saturation of reds (-67, not too much), which made the colorful rags less distracting.