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stagates wrote:
Thank you for your comments. I don't see the problem and could use your help on this. Wouldn't it be natural for there to be a green tinge where the blue sky fades into the yellow reflected sunlight in the clouds. Blue + yellow = green, I believe. I am shooting in raw with "daylight" white balance and am not changing the saturation or color in post processing. I do shoot with a Lee hard grad to even out the exposure. Do you have any recommendations for how I might get the green out if that is desirable? Thank you for any help....Show more →
Green in the sky is not natural unless you are shooting an Aurora. If you see green in the sky in a normal landscape image, you know something is wrong.
As for the WB, myself, I always always always shoot in Auto WB. While I know some people who change it, the WB is constantly changing, and even though we define it as "Daylight" etc, there is a reason we can dial in the WB to exactly the right temp. You start changing the WB and next thing you know you forget to change it for the next shoot and you have purple skies, or you are shooting indoors and everyone is yellow,etc.. My advice is to leave it on Auto, especially as it looks like you are still learning and growing with your photography.
In scenes like this where there are objects sticking up into the sky and in between you have open sky, are times you should not be using an ND grad. ND grads are great for times when everything across your horizon is fairly even. So shooting a sunset say at the beach where there is nothing but water along the horizon would be great. A distance shot of mountains a ND grad can work, but a close up shot of mountains where the peaks poke up into the sky you would not use an ND grad. Learn to do layer masking, that is the most powerful way to shoot and blend your images so they look natural. You will not have any revealing ND grad lines in them.
I think that's about it.
Jim
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