My #100DayProject this year is to work on my photography. This week, I have chosen to work on editing last week’s photos, mainly the water/reflection photos of the pond in the back yard that I made last week. In particular, I’m working on learning to use masks in Lightroom Classic.

This is the original image, straight out of the camera (SOC):

I do shoot in RAW, so naturally, the image is a bit dull. So, with the help of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, I came up with this edit:

I asked for feedback in the Year of Creative Photography group. Following the suggestion of one of the moderators, I cropped some of the dark sky at the top of the image, increased the exposure slightly, and adjusted the highlights and whites to brighten the image. This is the result:

I made the sky reflection bluer. I still need to bring out the greens at the bottom of the image, but I am making progress.

Another image I worked on is this one:

I may have gone a bit overboard with the blue, but I like it.