When you enlarge, Carol, you lose resolution and quality. Maybe the whole shot would have been better. It sure is a pretty image with the golds and greens and the placement of the trees. There are software programs out there, I understand, that can enlarge and resize without losing quality. I think Topaz has a plugin for photoshop that will do that and here is a tutorial I just discovered on how to resize and retain sharpness.

Did you save the original? You could always start over again...lol...But I love the scene and the colors are so brilliant! Cool shot Carol!

Oh i'm stunned, really this one is simply stunning. Great work, Carol!

Hi, Carol...

What I wouldn't do to be able to stand there with my new telephoto zoom lens. I guess I've never asked you about your camera and lens(es). What equipment do you have? I started with a pocket sized Olympus but it was suffering and its life was ended on my oak stump at the end of my sledge hammer. Compared to the average Caedes member, I have pretty inexpensive equipment; so I recognize what you were trying to do. Cindy might be right although I've never heard of such software. Doug might know. Back when I was Dorothy and was using just the one lens, any distant shots like this attempt looked pretty much like what you've posted. I do have a busted Canon telephoto zoom that works on rare occasions if you want it. The potential was there with those grain fields and great colors and geometric patterns in the fields. This is one time you can't blame the photographer. It's akin to me using my camera to try to shoot microscopic organisms. It just ain't gonna happen.

Roger

Roger

Oh Great!

It's great, Carol, looks a bit surrealistic. The colors are fantastic, I really love it. Thanks.

Carol like this alot this picture should get a rework .....Carol much to good not to get the the best out of it.

Rob

These are truly golden fields of glory Carol! Your lighting in this picture is perfect the golds and greens seem to glow
excellent capture an A+++

I'm glad Cindy had that link in here comment...I have done the same thing you did with this. I didn't know that there was a way to enlarge without losing quality. This shot sure has some bold and beautiful colors, though. I would love to see the whole image.

It reminds some part of the Umbria countryside,
Ed.

I will say it as a very nice artistic look about the shot with beautiful colours too.Plus i can see what you was seeing and the colours and light are great.

I don't know what kind of editor you have, but what I've done on occasion when I can't get a bigger version is to use the Salt and Pepper filter in Paint Shop Pro and make it look like a watercolor. Probably whatever program you have would have something similar. That's what I did with this. I couldn't render it any larger, but I resized it to 5040x2835 and applied the filter, and later downsized it for Caedes ...
I really like the colors in this, it would be nice to see a less pixelated version.

Sure is a beautiful shot. Carol. It's hard to tell where the fault lies without seeing the exif information embedded in the image.
I've enlarged very small portions of images to letter sized prints that were perfectly presentable, but shutter speed and aperture size are all important to that kind of success. I also had plenty of failures as well.
The depth of field covers the entire area (Look to the dark shadow line along the green in the upper right corner). Also the foreground and fence lines. All show about the same degree of sharpness, even after Soften was applied, which is normal.
I'm more inclined to think you shot with a slower shutter speed and the result is from a slight bit of camera movement.
Even if you have image stabilization, it's of little value unless you know what speed the camera is setting for each shot.
Also, there is some Noise/Grain from both the enlarging and Sharpening, and using a DeNoiser with smoothing capabilities gives more apparent sharpness to the sharper area.
If you know how to find the EXIF information, forward it to me and Ill tell you with certainty.

yeah, I get the gist... I think you need a telescope. ;) Nice colors, anyway.

I like the look of this, the colours and the pathwork looking fields

A wonderful looking scene, Carol. Nicely composed with beautiful colours in the fields and lovely lighting.

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Very artistic, your work beacame a wonderful painting! Love it, Carol!