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Storm on the Valley (40)
Unknownspiral (94)
This picture was taken on one of my trips on Colombia... It was a perfect place with a lot of heat and sun, and then from one moment to another this storm just came in the valley. I guess it was rainning heavy on that part of the valley... The place where this picture was taken is where the coffe plantations are located, really near to the city of Manizales.
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Unknownspiral (94)
Restore Foreground Details
Edited by:kwazireal Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 114 W: 88 N: 54] (173)
If you are interested, please save the original image file to your hard drive and open it in Photoshop. You cannot help but notice all of the beautiful foreground detail that is missing when the image is displayed over the Internet (TE).

To compensate for darker Internet rendering, I made a duplicate background layer, invoked a layer mask and filled it with black. Changed the blend mode to Screen. Painted over the foreground (everything in front of the fallng rain only) on the layer mask with a white brush, 150 pixels, 15% hardness, 67% opacity, 90% flow rate.

Used Clone Stamp to remove a small piece of power line in the extreme upper right corner.

Save as jpeg and posted on an alternate site to check rendering. First pass was too bright; reduced (Screen) Layer opacity to 67% and tried again. Still too bright; invoked blending options on (Screen) Layer, using the split sliders to graduate the screen effect to zero from level 128 up to level 192; reduced Layer opacity to 50% and re-posted for evaluation.

That combination worked for me, restoring a decent amount of foreground detail, but not detracting from the drama of the stormy scene.