Editing other pictures in Play Raw is a lot of fun. But sometimes one have to give back. So here is a Play Raw from me. Let’s see how you edit this shot. Especially interested in seeing different crops or maybe not.
The 2:1 crop ( ) does tend to emphasize compositionally the long shadows more, together with the lines in the low clouds at left. I was unable to get the colour/tonality like yours in my brief play.
Cropping such a beautiful and elegant picture felt a bit wrong… But, since we’re playing, and that was a part of the task I allowed myself to get a little more artistic.
Nice image! I ended up very similar to @Popanz’s original edit, albeit not quite as moody. But I tried to “spotlight” the trees, give them some volume and make the most of the drama inherent in the scene.
A Play with the language is as well welcome. Hopefully improving the language abilities of non native speakers like me.
Changing the planting should be by the way possible as well. But it’s a not so easy job and more a Play with GIMP than a Play Raw.
GIMP.
Increases in contrast to emphasise the shadows and the dramatic sky. Slight crop to make it more landscape, but I didn’t want to lose too much of the sky.
@dqpcoxeas That came unexpected. This works astonishing well.
All in all there are few crops which I haven’t tried. Most of you confirmed my choice. Anyway there were really nice and interesting edits, from which I could learn some things. Besides the already mentioned version of dqpcoxeas. I would like to highlight @qmpel 's version which taught me i could have treated my trees more carefully. They look quite harsh against your edit. And I would like to highlight @Soupy with his version as well. I really like the panorama format and i was quite impressed, that B/W works as well. I haven’t even thought about B/W.