I give up... i canNOT make the colours come out right... the light and sky at this point in time are completely bizarre... i've cropped out this mound of snow on the right that was totally ablaze with light (sun was rising on the left) because (a) it unbalanced the comp and (b) it kept turning bright pink which i'm pretty sure is all wrong, or it went flat..
i tried various pre-sets in LR4 to tone this down, but that made it go flat as well... crying uncle and heading to bed...
Sorry for not being around last couple of days... i've been feeling under the weather and work is a little nutty all of a sudden...
Thank you SO much for all the wonderful comments and favs on my sunrise shot from Sunday... You guys are so wonderfully supportive and i'm feeling rotten for not having the time to reciprocate these past two days... Hope to have a bit more time tomorrow...
I long ago accepted that cameras, whether film or digital sensors, do not see colors as the Human eye does. Some shots turn out really nice, but things with very subtle colorings n ever come out the way we want them to. FWIW, I think this is pretty nice as it is.
Fantastic shot my dear! I think the colors look wonderful! :) And I love the guy and the dog that you captured as well! :) I do hope you are feeling better and don't get the full-blown sickies.... Hope work settles down for you as well :) xo
In LR4 I'd do a graduated filter to desaturate towards the lower 1/5th, and increase the exposure..... if you wanted to make the snow look whiter, of course!
The colours are a bit cold, perhaps too much green... I don't know, wouldn't have the faintest how to even start changing colours but I like it, and the composition is as always spot on!
Maybe those are just the colors of a winter sunrise? They are different, but still beautiful. I like the turqoise blue personally, something different.
I actually like the colours you have ended up with. They add something to the scene, the strong yellow sandwiched in between the mid blues. I don't think it needs toning down as it works as it is.
However you wanted this to look, and I'm sure you had an image in your head, I think this looks absolutely wonderful. The colours are beautiful, vibrant, the silhouette of the man and the tree are placed just right and something I particularly like is the grassy silhouette like stubble on the landscape xx
I love the colors in the sky. Have you tried the adjustment brush yet? It's the last tool in the section with the crop tool, spot tool, red-eye tool, etc. In this case, it is SUPER easy to use. Just paint the brush over the snow area, then up the exposure or whites. That will brighten up the bottom half of the frame without messing up the sky.
@cmc1200 yep... i've used the brush, but i'm not very good at it and it does things that i don't quite understand (or more likely, i am pushing buttons with unintended consequences ;p)... need more practice!!!
@janim @houdiniem tx guys... i did try b&w, but the sky felt flat no matter what i did...