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I took this picture of Mt Cook (NZ) with a compact digital camera last year.

Looks like you had a nice day for it and nailed it during a break in the clouds! Can I suggest cropping from the bottom to remove some of that darker area and make it into a pano style? just a thought but its still a quinessential NZ shot.

Good ol NZ! It hasn't changed a bit

Nice capture and I would agree with Gerry's suggestion with cropping. If not, try to bring out a little detail in the dark if possible.

Good ol NZ! It hasn't changed a bit

Yes it has. Mt Cook is smaller than it was the last time I saw it in the flesh

As suggested above:

A great improvement. Though now I would like to see more saturation in the sky as well. Bring out some of that cloud detail. Maybe a mask along the horizon line & just play with the sky. It needs to be subltle though. Too much and you will lose the sense of reality.

The new one:

great capture....... but where are the skiers

Thank you, but they were all away having a cup of coffee.

Hi Zafra

Looking at the differences between the three images of the same photograph, it is amazing how much difference a little crop and a little sky saturation can make.

You have turned a typical NZ photograph into a really good NZ photograph thanks to some learned advice from fellow members

Well done to you and to them

Cheers

Graham

Mr Darcy wrote: much and you will lose the sense of reality.

I reckon you could get away with some extreme editing NZ is unreal.

Thank you all for your advice and input. Generally, I prefer to do as little editing as possible to keep the images as close as possible to the originals. This is mainly due to the fact that my knowledge and skills in post-processing are fairly limited.