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White Pocket Vermilion Cliffs

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xpatUSA
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Re: May I ask ...

xpatUSA wrote:

rick decker wrote:

The sky was very frustrating. If you would like to try, I will make the RAW available. Vitee did some reprocessing because of green cast. His one has a strong blue cast in the skies which is not at all unappealing. I wanted the beautiful SD15 skies!!

Want to try?

I think the root problem was shooting in Auto WB.

So in SPP 5.5.3 I returned all the sliders to zero and set the WB to Sunlight.

Then exported to RawTherapee as ProPhoto, 16-bit TIFF.

In RT:

Clicked on AUTO development and adjusted highlite compression to bring the now-bright bits back into the histogram.

Next white-balanced on a medium-toned piece of cloud.

Then upped the detail contrast with Contrast By Detail Levels.

At no time did I adjust any color individually.

Mine versus the SPP TIFF:

Is that SD15 blue? ....

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