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Instead of attempting to do WB by the numbers, I decided to try it by direct comparison.
This looks like the same scene as before but its actually 5 miles further east. I was up here to try a milky way shot Saturday night, too much light pollution for a MW, but I spent the night and got this sunrise. Actually this is about 15 minutes after sunrise, clouds blocked the first 15 so this is far less red than a true sunrise. More pinkish.
I looked at my LCD for each set of 1/3 stop brackets and compared the image to the actual scene. Using the fine picture style, I saw that the WB was as perfect as my eyes could see. The lightest shot was a tad dark in the shadows, the mid shot was about perfect for the sky and the dark shot was the only one without blinkies.
As it turns out, this is the brightest shot, I was able to eliminate the blinkies with a gradient mask. As I processed the image, I attempted to match the scene to the camera LCD. I left the AWB as is, and worked exposure and shadows to get the final result. I used about half my normal sharpness and clarity and bumped up saturation about 8 in the ACR panel.
I think this is a very honest representation of the scene.
Please feel free to offer any comments. About the scene itself, if it could be pushed more, or less, whatever you want.
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