With all three of the above images I wanted to reduce the contrast between light and dark so I reduced Highlights in the first two (as they had some rather overexposed areas on the horizon) and increased the Shadows to make them lighter. After this, I needed to define the grass more as it had lost a little resolution. To do this, I increased the Texture. I did the same here with the Highlights as I wanted to make the sky more dull and flat as seen in lots of the New Topographics’ images.I sort of did the opposite with this image, as I wanted to use the clouds to add more of a statement to my composition and so I added Contrast.Here I wanted to reduce the Shadows in order to exemplify the effect of the flash being radial. I also wanted to draw attention to the clouds in the centre, so I increased the Whites to add brightness to the lighter parts. Here I did the opposite by increasing the Shadows to illuminate the parts not reached by my flash. This created an almost night vision effect.
