Restoring a Dawn

[xpatUSA]

Morning all ...

Up this morning to capture a Texas dawn behind the cedar and oak trees. But, by the time I got the camera onto the tripod, the red glow was already fading. It faded more while I tried various exposures - and only the last shot (of course) had decent focus. Sigma Photo Pro then killed the exercise by rendering an almost perfectly neutral sky during raw conversion:

No problem: RawTherapee (RT) has an option called Color Toning.

http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Color_Toning

Here's a side-by-side:



The good thing about RT's Color Toning for this shot was being able to tone the bright areas (sky) without unduly toning anything else. A very slight cast on the camper side was fixed later with RT's white balance picker ...