The childhood home of King Ludwig. Looking out from Neuschwanstein you see this view.
Just imagine that the roads and parking lots aren’t carved into the forest.
With the sun setting in the upper right corner of the picture, it made it hard to lower the exposure of the sky without making the clouds look fake. So, I didn’t worry about it too much other than cropping in a little to remove some of it. I decreased the clarity and highlights and increased the contrast, vibrance, and saturation (just the tiniest bit). I also lightened the shadows. I used a graduated filter in the sky to warm that color up a bit. I used a radial filter around the castle to make it stand out just a little. I used an adjustment brush on the lake to try to deepen its saturation a little, and another brush on a sun spot to try to lessen its severity. I decreased the noise of the whole picture. Here’s the original:
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Not So SAHM 