For the second week of January I used the grad ND tool as Stacey suggested last week and I’m so amazed by this technique. It’s very easy to get a nice balanced exposure level between the sky and ground with this tool. Thank you again for the tip, Stacey. I think I´ll use it a lot. :)
I did two other steps: I rotated my image by 180° so I got an upside down picture. It makes the picture somehow interesting to me. Finally I added a Diffuse filter.
Here is week 1:
Feedback, tips and comments are welcome.
Images and words 
Agnes my apologies for the latecreply – have been letting folks know Ive been having probs commenting.
When I first saw this last week, it took a minute to register that you had flipped it. Very clever 😃
I too agree that using the ND gave you a great result!
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Don’t worry about it Robyn. I’m very happy that Stacey helped me to get a better result with the ND filter. This is why I love your challenge. Unfortunately, being a beginner, I can’t really give advice to anyone but I’m very grateful that I can learn from others.
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So pleased you’re enjoying the challenge Agnes.
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Really good use of the ND filter! I love the surreal feel of this with the rotation and diffuse filter :-)
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Thank you, Sarah! I’m glad you like it!
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Right up my street :-)
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I didn’t realise this image was flipped until I read it. It feels so serene :)
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That’s the point. :) Without knowing the original image it’s not really noticeable that the image is flipped. :) Thank you for your comment!
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Love the serene feel of this version, Agnes. Great idea to flip the image!
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Thank you!
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That ND Grad tool is so impressive, I love it! Way to think outside the box and flip the image too, really interesting and effective. Great second process!!
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Thank you very much, Carrie!
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Love that you turned the world upside down…lol! Clever!
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Thank you, Janis!
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Nice job with the filter. And the flip… Took me a second to realize that there’s some fundamental difference between the two images when I started comparing them. :) I agree with Stacey, it’s a tad difficult to compare the two images because of it. I like its effect in the image, though.
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Thank you for your comment, Anita. I’m glad that you like the effect of the flipping although it’s difficult to compare the picture with the previous one.
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I really like the flipping of the image and it took me a second to realize that you had done it. Good work with the gradient adjustment it has brought so much detail back into the sky and water. Good work.
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Thank you very much Ben.
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Your submission this week IS interesting. There are some curious shapes on the left side of the photograph this week where the small island is. Great work.
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Thank you very much, Amanda.
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I see a vast improvement in your sky, great job and glad I could help. I went to a day workshop where I learned lots of useful tips but how to use the ND Grad to improve skies was worth the price for the event by itself and made a big difference to the quality of images and how they ended up looking. Happy to pass the same tip on for free!
Your flipping around of the image is messing with my head, I want to see the detail in what you did but can’t process it upside down LOL
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I can’t thank you enough, Stacey. It’s a very cool thing.
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