Trespassing

This shot, from California’s Napa Valley, was an interesting natural collage of visual elements. I really liked the lighting and detail of the foreground and the scenery of the background. But those branches!

01.

I began by eliminating the top-right branches by the cloning and healing brushes. Poof! Gone.

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Next, I worked on some global tonality edits before I arrived at something I liked for this shot.

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To finish things off, I added some localized sharpening and color grading.

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