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December 26, 2020 at 5:32 pm
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James Staddon
Keymaster
You’ve got great raw material here! You might be surprised to hear that many epic photos start out looking just like this. Of course, composition and subject play major roles in how epic a photo looks, but you do have dynamic lighting here so some editing would certainly be helpful here. I don’t have the large, uncompressed, raw file so it will appear rather low quality, but here’s how I would edit this photo if it were my own. And since you exposed for the highlights, I was able to retain much of the cloud detail, which is usually how I expose for these types of high-contrast scenes.