Grand Lake, CO

[YossarianXXI]

We got a small cabin in the Mountains to celebrate my wife & her sister's birthday (twins). Here's a few of the shots


East Inlet Trail, Rocky Mountain NP

DSC_0689 by Yossarian_XXI, on Flickr

Baker Mtn, Mt Nimbus, Mt Cumulus & Howard Mtn, from the Southern Point of Shadow Mountain Lake

DSC_0646 by Yossarian_XXI, on Flickr


My Wife & her sister snowmobiling in wilderness area West of RMNP. (The trees are as they are because the area had a massive forest fire late last summer)

DSC_0644 by Yossarian_XXI, on Flickr

[Wavelength]

Very nice images; the first one lacks a distinction between the snow ridge and the back ground snow; still good

[DanK]

The second is a good capture that has real potential, but IMHO, it needs editing. It has a distinct blue color cast (common when one uses AWB in snowy conditions), and the shadows need to be opened up. I did a very quick and dirty edit and got the image below. It's certainly not done; there is still a color cast in the ice that's hard to get rid of in a JPEG. However, it may be enough to show the direction I'm thinking of.

[Manfred M]

+1 to many of Dan's comments.

The second image definitely has the most potential, but the lighting is a bit problematic, The blue sky steals the show and the trees are too much in shade and the snow covered lake is too dark and has a colour cast (snow often picks up the colour of the sky when in shade and that ends up looking a bit strange.

I'm also not sure if you need quite as much foreground and the sky is to prominent. I find that for this type of scene a panoramic crop; 16:9 or 2:1 are often more effective. Here is the result of my quick edit.

[DanK]

Manfred,

I didn't have time to fuss with the remaining color cast on the ice. Had to leave the house. I'm curious what you did. Your overall adjustment of WB is a bit less magenta than mine, as one can see from the clouds, but I doubt that small difference would clean up the ice. Did you desaturate the ice?

Dan

[Manfred M]

Manfred,

I didn't have time to fuss with the remaining color cast on the ice. Had to leave the house. I'm curious what you did. Your overall adjustment of WB is a bit less magenta than mine, as one can see from the clouds, but I doubt that small difference would clean up the ice. Did you desaturate the ice?

Dan

Hi Dan - I did a quick & dirty global adjustment to take the blue (and cyan) colour cast down a bit, opened up the shadows (shadows slider in ACR) in the trees, took a bit more blue and cyan out of the sky area. For the frozen lake, I threw on an curves adjustment layer on the lake and brightened it up and dropped a color sampler on the lake. The numbers showed heavy blue and too much cyan (too little red). I took the blue channel down a bit on the right hand side (i.e. added yellow) and too the red channel up a bit on the left hand side (i.e. removed cyan) until all three values were about the same.

All three adjustments on the curves layer can be seen here:

[DanK]

Manfred,

Thanks. Very helpful.

One thing I found difficult is that the color of the ice varies on the horizontal, with more magenta on the left. There’s just a trace of that remaining in your edit. I started working on that with a mask and brush but didn’t make a lot of headway in the time I had.

Dan


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[Manfred M]

Manfred,

Thanks. Very helpful.

One thing I found difficult is that the color of the ice varies on the horizontal, with more magenta on the left. There’s just a trace of that remaining in your edit. I started working on that with a mask and brush but didn’t make a lot of headway in the time I had.

Dan


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My WB on the ice is not perfect, but the values of the sample point are slightly biased to the red. The sample point that I used is actually (218, 216. 215). That is possibly what you are picking up. As I did this with a selection, it is possible that it wasn't perfect and a few pixels were missed here and there.

I don't generally spend a lot of time fine tuning someone else's image that I am critiquing, especially when working on a low rez version.

[DanK]

Right. I agree--a low res JPEG is hard to work with, and in these cases, I just try to do enough to illustrate what I'm suggesting. I was curious, however, for the general case.