Arctic scene - how to set WB?

[davidedric]

Hi,

Reworking some old pictures (not very high resolution), taken during husky driving trip in Swedish arctic.

Light was beautiful, but struggling to get a good WB - any suggestions (using LR)? (and any other C&C welcome)

Thanks,

Dave

[AB26]

Hi Dave,

Maybe if you reduce the warmth a tad by adding a bit of blue:

[RustBeltRaw]

Dave, this particular shot is a mixed-light situation. Anything in the shadows from the middle of the trees down will probably look best at a 6000-7000K white temperature, and everything above that level, lit by the sunset(rise?) will probably respond best to 3600-4500K. Unless you want to mask and adjust white balance in each zone separately, you'll just have to pick your poison. Mixed light is a bear. Personally, winter scenes are one of only a few cases where I prefer a bluer white balance. Tends to convey the scene's thermal (not light) temperature rather well.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Hi,

Reworking some old pictures (not very high resolution), taken during husky driving trip in Swedish arctic.

Light was beautiful, but struggling to get a good WB - any suggestions (using LR)? (and any other C&C welcome)

Thanks,

Dave

Hi,
The image,on my display,is not at all bad at first look.First of all ctr j to do a copy then with clone stamp tool at different opacity from 40 to 70% clone down/out the chains from dogs and the third dog.Then,enhance> adjust lighting>levels move the left and middle slider to right then move the left slider near its initial place as your taste says.With eraser tool at 10-20% erase the trees and foreground as your taste says,without the sky.Layers>merge down.Lasso tool at 35 px.on the foreground and ctrl j for a copy then enhance>adjust color
>adjust hue/saturation then look for blue and cyan and move the slider of saturation to the left near -20 or ...more but not too much.That was in PSE 15 min
So different Whites are pp on different layers

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

In Lr problem is easily to solve but in the same time more difficult.I look for Auto exposure then look for color noise and move the slider to the right around 80% and the detail to 60%.About chains I show you only a little,your action will be with spot removal as clone and that is all.

[Steve S]

The white balance looks pretty good to me, dave.

[davidedric]

Hi folks, thanks for the ideas and feedback. I'll try some things out, though I don't think my PP skills will stand up to making separate masks for the shadow/sunny areas.

Cheers,

Dave