Here is a picture of Stevens Peak taken this July from the Skyline Trail NE of Paradise in the Mt Rainier National Park. We had been in the clouds earlier in the afternoon and we followed the trail using GPS. The trail was not well marked and, at times, the clouds reduced visibility to just a few feet. As we got towards the latter half of the loop trail, the clouds broke and gave us this beautiful view of the local mountains.

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Attached are the raw image and a jpg exported directly from the unedited raw file. Hope you enjoy the scenery.

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Mike

This group of images offers a real learning experience for me (in addition to the obvious display of post-processing skills!). We're constantly being told how important accurate color rendition is; we're told to calibrate our monitors, etc. etc.

And here we have a beautiful scene rendered with many variations on the "original" colors. And the images are all at least "acceptable" (most well beyond that!), right? I certainly don't mean to start a discussion here, it's the wrong place for that; just wondering...and learning....

And, it's a fine wondering you have. Given human vision, so many color renderings are possible with a photo, as is evidenced here. The only concern I think we need is to make sure we know what the output will look like, as we post process--and there are several ways to do that, from expensive calibration steps to the old way of test strips and knowledge of our processes.

There is a gray area (surprise!) in the acceptable-ridiculous scale, both realistically and artistically. As my grandson taught me, "So what, right!?"