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We've been having some crazy colorful sunsets this week. Thanks for

looking.....

Beautiful colours and reflections.

Sidsel

I made an adjustment

Sidsel....... Thank you very much for the kind words. I'm glad you like it.

Anonymous...... I see what your driving at and thank you for the advice but to me it looks to much like an HDR shot now. The softness of the clouds is now gone and the contrast in the rocks below the waters surface over power the reflection.

Fred

OK re 'HDR' look but at least you should ajust the color balance so that it is less pink. There are some blues that are screaming to get out.

A lovely soft image of a very colorful sky and reflection. Knowing that snow is white, the question on my mind whether the colorful sky has imparted its color to the snow. Since I was not there, I would not know what the scene looked like so in the end I have to decide whether I like it or not. I do like it but I am thinking I might like it more - something in between what you have here and what anonymous suggested.

Keep up the fine work,

Tony and Anonymous......... When I took the photo it was a very colorful sky. One of the more colorful sunsets I've ever seen. We were blessed with this beautiful sky 3 evenings in a row and I was lucky to be ready for it on the third evening. There was actually a glow in the air that you don't see very often and yes it did impart some of the colors on the small amount of snow you can see in the distance. Snow in the foreground probably wouldn't look as pink but at a distance I can understand it. I used my cameras preset daylight white balance of 5000k and plus 1 tint at the time of capture. Once in camera raw I tried a couple of different white balances by clicking on the snow on the mountain at right with the white balance tool but didn't like the look after doing so. It just didn't look like what I remembered at the time of capture so I ended up processing it at 5000 plus 1. I used ACRs gradient tool to balance the light, added a dose of fill light and a little contrast and clarity. In photoshop I added a little more linear contrast with a curves layer through a mask targeting the light tones. Boosted the saturation by plus 5. That's it. I would be willing to email the raw file to either of you and think it would be fun to see how you would process it yourselves. It might be a good learning experience for all of us. Of course Anonymous would have to reveal his or her identity but I promise to keep it secret if it is important to you. Just email me and let me know if you are willing to take the challenge. In either case thank you for your interest in my photography and also thanks to Tony for all of your recent comments on some of my other shots.

Fred