glacier and banff Emerald Lake Redeux

Please let me know what you think. In an effort to continually

improve my photography I welcome any comments. Thank You

Colors look very unnatural. Why do we get green sky reflections for example and what did you do to the greens...? Otherwise, a nice composition.

I don?t think colours are unnatural. I think that the secret has been the hour in which the photo was taken, but maybe I?m wrong... Can you explain us how did you take this photo? Congratulations anyway.

Marc, the reason why there is a green tint in the water is because it is a lake filled with water that has run off the glacier. It is a extremely green lake, thus the name Emerald Lake. There is another Emerald Lake photo in my gallery that may show the color of the water a bit better. Ander, to answer your question, the photograph was taken in the late evening just before sunset. I utilized a hard-edged 3-stop Singh-Ray grad positioned diagionally along the top of the trees. This was too much and caused the reflection in the water to be too light. I then darkened the water in PS by utilizing the neutral density grad filter from the nik toolset. I also used the fred and miranda velvia automated task to enrich the colors slightly, only because canon raw colors are a bit muted. I hope that answers your question.