Three Amigas: I make a habit of driving the 20 miles up St Vrain Canyon from Lyons to the Peak to Peak highway looking for moose. I was rewarded with these three females feeding along...

CliffC Loc: Colorado USA

I make a habit of driving the 20 miles up St Vrain Canyon from Lyons to the Peak to Peak highway looking for moose. I was rewarded with these three females feeding along the road. I am not happy with my white balance. There is a bluish tint to the photos although I chose the cloudy selection on my white balance. Any suggestions?

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Neat to see and photograph those gals :)

You should be able to adjust the color a little in editing. What program/s do you use? If you want to re-post one of the images with "store original" selected (use a larger file size), I'll give it a go with my rudimentary knowledge.

CliffC Loc: Colorado USA

Linda From Maine wrote:

Neat to see and photograph those gals :)

You should be able to adjust the color a little in editing. What program/s do you use? If you want to re-post one of the images with "store original" selected (use a larger file size), I'll give it a go with my rudimentary knowledge.

Here's my attempt at Store Original of the moose image.

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CliffC Loc: Colorado USA

CliffC wrote:

Here's my attempt at Store Original of the moose image.

I don't have a post processing program yet. I try to get white balance correct when I take the shot. I do shoot raw and jpg together so I can adjust the raw file when I choose an editing program.

Jerry B Loc: Dyckesville, Wisconsin

I have one suggestion - do not get too close!

klaesser Loc: Monmouth Oregon

CliffC wrote:

I make a habit of driving the 20 miles up St Vrain Canyon from Lyons to the Peak to Peak highway looking for moose. I was rewarded with these three females feeding along the road. I am not happy with my white balance. There is a bluish tint to the photos although I chose the cloudy selection on my white balance. Any suggestions?

I did just one

CliffC Loc: Colorado USA

klaesser wrote:

I did just one

That's much better. What did you do?

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

And here is one. I have PSE 12. I did the "open in camera raw" option, and first changed the white balance setting to auto. Then fiddled with the whites and blacks, then opened in regular part of Elements to fiddle some more.

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These were the options in camera raw, and the sliders I moved.

klaesser Loc: Monmouth Oregon

CliffC wrote:

That's much better. What did you do?

That was a real quickie, could do a lot better. Used Adobe Lightroom 5, changed white balance with color picker added a bit contrast, lowered the shadows then masked the animals and did some tweaking on them alone. Took about 7 minutes,\.
If image was raw format then could make it almost perfect

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

The other. This time I only used the "camera raw" settings. Changing white balance to auto made the biggest difference.

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Wahawk Loc: NE IA

CliffC wrote:

Here's my attempt at Store Original of the moose image.

This was done with the FREE Picasa program.

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Oh neat, Wahawk. I didn't even try Picasa because it couldn't handle a trickier white balance issue yesterday. With your inspiration, I did a new one in Picasa, too:

One-click auto-color, then some highlights (brighten) and fill light. Cropped to 8x10, added "museum matte."

CliffC - to get the free program:

http://picasa.google.com

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Wahawk Loc: NE IA

Linda From Maine wrote:

Oh neat, Wahawk. I didn't even try Picasa because it couldn't handle a trickier white balance issue yesterday. With your inspiration, I did a new one in Picasa, too:

One-click auto-color, then some highlights (brighten) and fill light. Cropped to 8x10, added "museum matte."

CliffC - to get the free program:

http://picasa.google.com

LOL!!! Sometimes the cheap & easy way is what we forget the easiest!!

creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

Wahawk wrote:

LOL!!! Sometimes the cheap & easy way is what we forget the easiest!!

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

CliffC wrote:

I make a habit of driving the 20 miles up St Vrain Canyon from Lyons to the Peak to Peak highway looking for moose. I was rewarded with these three females feeding along the road. I am not happy with my white balance. There is a bluish tint to the photos although I chose the cloudy selection on my white balance. Any suggestions?

Lovely animals well captured even with the blue tint