iPhone Photo Tip #2

The photo below may need a bit of composition tweaking, but you will see that with the Snapseed app, I'm able to bring out more color in the train and the flowers.

In this original snapshot, the foreground is too dark and you can't really see the colors on the train.

Now the flowers are yellow and there is a bright band on red on the silver train--Voila!  Even the sky looks more natural after the adjustment with some pink tones in it.

Our Latvian teacher, Emil, reminds us over and over to "get the landscape line straight" before you do anything else in editing.  That's easy in Snapseed if you happen to get the landscape line crooked when you're photographing the sea or a wide expansive landscape.

You could also crop the picture to decrease the proportion of the sky, but I chose to leave it as it is.

According to Emil, a landscape photo needs a subject.  The train in this photo above is the subject.  But in the next landscape, there is no subject--and a professional photographer would probably get out of the car, use a tripod, and ask someone to move into the frame, or wait until someone happened to pass by in a boat.  Since I had no one with me, and no boat, I have a landscape without a strong subject.

With masking, I could now go in and lighten up the band of trees a bit so that you could see more details.