Lesson 11. Window, Santa Fe, New Mexico

This was actually taken behind that church in Santa Fe you saw earlier, and the colors looked really nice and vibrant—until I opened the photo in Photoshop. This is one of those images where you have to double-process it, making two versions of the same photo, and then put parts of each together to make one image that’s the best of the two. This one takes a few more steps, but the final image is worth it (because the original image would never have seen the light of day).

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