Muddy Sky

[rpcrowe]

How about this version done with NIK Viveza mostly with the structure slider but a bit of shadow reduction on the land...

[Shadowman]

Beautiful image John I would desaturate the orange sign a bit though.

Hi Binnur,

Thanks for commenting, do you think the sign distracts from the rest of the composition?

[Shadowman]

How about this version done with NIK Viveza mostly with the structure slider but a bit of shadow reduction on the land...

Nice, did you also increase the shadow tones in the clouds near the horizon?

[rpcrowe]

Nice, did you also increase the shadow tones in the clouds near the horizon?

I globally increased the structure and them placed several control points along the breakwater and grouped these. I then used the shadow slider on that group of points... The shadow tones in the clouds may have been impacted...

[Shadowman]

I globally increased the structure and them placed several control points along the breakwater and grouped these. I then used the shadow slider on that group of points... The shadow tones in the clouds may have been impacted...

Richard,

Thanks for the follow up, Viveza is a very useful tool.

[purplehaze]

An interesting treatment of a great subject, John. I like the detail Richard has brought out in the breakwater, but I prefer your sky.

[Shadowman]

An interesting treatment of a great subject, John. I like the detail Richard has brought out in the breakwater, but I prefer your sky.

Hi Janis,

Thanks for commenting.

[bnnrcn]

Hi John.Although my eyes don't go to the sign immediately, I find the orange color a bit too strong and bright. Also your original has a very slight pink color cast and Richard's edit has a greenish one. So, may be a WB in between would look better

[Stagecoach]

I wonder if the colours and casts seen have anything to do with the image embedded colour profile?

[DanK]

Very nice image. I do have a few suggestions.

The building is very interesting, but it is kind of drab--limited tonal range, mostly dark, not much structure. So I played around a bit. see what you think. I fiddled with the white balance a bit. I selected all but the sky and added local contrast in photoshop. I sharpened the photo using a high-pass filter because that leaves smooth areas unaffected. I dodged the masonry to brighten it and then burned the construction stuff behind it to make it less visible. I then brought up the black point and increase contrast in the sky. A quick and dirty set of edits, but maybe is in a reasonable direction. And, I almost forgot, I toned down the sign--dropped the saturation and darkened it a bit. Maybe I lightened the building too much.

[Shadowman]

Hi John.Although my eyes don't go to the sign immediately, I find the orange color a bit too strong and bright. Also your original has a very slight pink color cast and Richard's edit has a greenish one. So, may be a WB in between would look better

Hi Binnur,

Because it was such an overcast day I decided to shoot with shady white balance, my purpose was to get some popping primary colors; unfortunately there were very few and I suppose the orange benefited from the experiment. I will say that the orange sign was very near the color I actually viewed.

[Shadowman]

I wonder if the colours and casts seen have anything to do with the image embedded colour profile?

Hi Grahame,

You might be right, see my comments in post 31, add that with my use of ProPhoto rgb and you perhaps arrive at a pulsation of possibilities; granted imagery captured in camera is set to Adobe rgb. I may also have been anticipating the capabilities of my printer which when my imagery is viewed in Lightroom I often out of gamut color representation. I felt my editing removed any out of gamut colors.

[Shadowman]

Hi Dan,

Nice effort, interesting that each interpretation changes the composition to emphasize or deemphasize different areas of the photo. At first glance your dampening of the sign seems less appealing, however I think different tones serving as a border brings out different hues; a lighter gray tone warms the orange of the sign and a darker border allows the orange sign to blend in with the background. It would be interesting to see what others think.

[bnnrcn]

Ah, now I can see where the warm pink color cast comes from I think Dan's edit improved the image.

Hi Binnur,

Because it was such an overcast day I decided to shoot with shady white balance, my purpose was to get some popping primary colors; unfortunately there were very few and I suppose the orange benefited from the experiment. I will say that the orange sign was very near the color I actually viewed.