Too blue?
Nov 16, 2013 16:11:34 #
I visited Hurricane Ridge out of Port Angeles, WA, on a foggy day in August. The sky wasn't very blue, but when it did peak through the fog it was at least not grey. When I worked on this image in LR, I found that by using the color sliders I could 1) tone down the yellow in the grass, and 2) make the sky more intense and more blue.
My question is this: I shoot for REALITY, and so this isn't true to my reality of the day. However, perhaps there are days when the sky is that blue there. Would people who know that area please let me know if this blue of a sky is ever natural? Or is it never that blue.
I admit that I'm torn between leaving the sky a pale, pale blue, and this stronger, prettier blue. However, I can't post 2 images here, so can't show you the difference. I just don't want it to be unnatural.
My question is this: I shoot for REALITY, and so this isn't true to my reality of the day. However, perhaps there are days when the sky is that blue there. Would people who know that area please let me know if this blue of a sky is ever natural? Or is it never that blue.
I admit that I'm torn between leaving the sky a pale, pale blue, and this stronger, prettier blue. However, I can't post 2 images here, so can't show you the difference. I just don't want it to be unnatural.
Nov 16, 2013 16:18:33 #
I think the blue as you've adjusted it looks realistic. I've seen it that color here in Minnesota and in my travels out west.
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Nov 16, 2013 16:21:43 #
Your adjusted blue looks natural. This adjusted sky is completely believable.
Nov 16, 2013 16:31:10 #
Welcome to the dark side, or as you might want to say the blue side.
Nov 16, 2013 16:49:43 #
Nov 16, 2013 17:29:07 #
AzPicLady wrote:
When I worked on this image in LR, I found that by using the color sliders I could 1) tone down the yellow in the grass, and 2) make the sky more intense and more blue.
Two things: first, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who uses the yellow slider in LR to tone down grass color; and secondly, you ARE allowed to publish two photos. The rule says: "2) One photo is allowed per thread. If you initially post more than one photo, the post will be deleted. The one exception to this rule is if you have two versions of the same photo for comparison purposes." According to what you've said, I believe your second photo would fall squarely within the "comparison purposes" caveat.
Nov 16, 2013 17:37:33 #
Nov 16, 2013 18:02:19 #
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That is a totally natural looking photo to me, I see that colour blue sky and cloud definition all the time.
Nov 16, 2013 18:32:57 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I visited Hurricane Ridge out of Port Angeles, WA,... (show quote)
It's a really nice photo of a beautiful place. The sky at Hurricane Ridge can get pretty blue. The blue color is natural looking - looks like I've seen it look. The upper right edge is a little darker than the rest of it, if you wanted, you could probably level that out with the window-shade or adjustment brush in lightroom to lessen the effect you put in, or by lightening a vignette if there is one, or a reverse one if the vignette is there on its own. Sometimes those high altitudes seem to form their own vignettes, and polarisers will give you one sometimes. Do you use the saturation slider or the luminance slider to darken your skies? I seem to have better luck with the luminance one. I know what you mean about the grass adjustment, I am always fighting with the yellow and green sliders to make grass look like it did when I saw it, I don't know why that's so hard!
Nov 16, 2013 18:44:27 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I visited Hurricane Ridge out of Port Angeles, WA,... (show quote)
I'm from the UK and we rarely get skys naturally that blue over here in countryside like that. But if I was looking at a travel brochure and saw that photo I would be booking a flight it looks perfectly natural to me.
Nov 16, 2013 18:58:38 #
Certainly our eyes see skies this blue and bluer, but if you are uncomfortable keeping this image because it didn't look this blue the moment you took the photograph, then keep the other one. Of course, you could always keep both couldn't you? :)
Nov 16, 2013 20:44:52 #
I'll go against the grain. While the blue sky makes the photo pop it doesn't seem natural to me when I see a fog or haze in the foreground. JMHO.
Nov 16, 2013 23:44:50 #
It's most definitely a blue I see around the Cascades and throughout the "dry" side of Washington. djtravels mentions perhaps unnatural because of fog in foreground, but I have seen exactly like that in the mountains. You're good to go!
Nov 17, 2013 07:32:20 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
It's most definitely a blue I see around the Cascades and throughout the "dry" side of Washington. djtravels mentions perhaps unnatural because of fog in foreground, but I have seen exactly like that in the mountains. You're good to go!
I second Linda's motion. We spend every chance we get in mountains. Hurricane Ridge is over 5,000 feet. At that altitude blue skies are usually bluer because there is less atmosphere above you. You are literally getting closer to the black of space. If you use a polarizer at altitude you can turn a sky nearly black. Also because of the altitude air temperatures tend to be lower and you will get some interesting phenomena, such as fog lingering in the valleys which are colder out of the direct sun.
Nov 17, 2013 09:37:06 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I visited Hurricane Ridge out of Port Angeles, WA,... (show quote)
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Been there. Seen exactly that. Sure seems natural to me!
Dave in SD
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