Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No "right" or "wrong" here; obviously you can create and present the image any way you like Steve. It does communicate well as a crisp, cold high altitude morning. Yet, for the sake of discussion of color balance and white points in digital files it's an interesting image to discuss and play with for the reasons that Mark has mentioned. You have an extremely high color temp in the shadows (the majority of the frame) and a relatively low color temp in the sunlit rock. Does the foreground snow appear deep blue in your "memory?" I'm not sure which program you use to process your images; but in LR (lightroom) you may find it interesting to use the "eye dropper" to find the white point on the (white) snow in the sun lit rock. This will give you neutral whites and grays; then dial up the blue to reflect your memory of the scene and/or your personal taste. (I did this with your lg .jpg and would choose a version a bit shy of your very blue decision - that doesn't make me right or you wrong - just personal taste) Just for the sake of discussion Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: > It looks just the way I remember it. And for good reason. Is that > wrong? Why would we wish to change it? Why do we wish to make it > look like light somewhere else, at low altitude, later in the day, > another time of the year...Why does that improve the shot? Sounds > like that's a great way to get fired, kicked out of a contest, or > at least confuse people, maybe only subliminally.... > > Just an silly amateur question, wanting to know,