On a recent trip into the Wind River Range of Wyoming, USA, I captured this image. I have had a hard time editing the image and am attributing it to the idea that there is a warm cast from bounced sunlight filling the valley causing an almost vintage film look... With my experience, editing it out gives the image an unnatural blue tone... Any thoughts? Is the image working for you?
There is some blue on the mountain face indeed, but you can use the magic wand and change the blue color cast to a more orange one to match the sky. I tried this with a couple of clicks :
thank you for the critique.
i like this image i just watched an edit on youtube that might help you out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjp1p6wVTcQ&t=1600s
check it out it may help
thanks for the video!
Great image Andrew. I do like what Nick has done.
9 out of 10 times, Leave your original alone as it IS the best. Stop doubting yourself and avoid cropping or post editing/enhancements. I would be extremely happy if my picture of this would have turned out so well.
I would use a luminosity mask applied to the darks and adjust "Levels" in Photoshop to give it some more punch and contrast to the shadows. You can use the same LM to warm it up with some color if you don't like the blue you may be getting.
Love this as it is, Andrew. I think that rosy glow gives this image a distinctive character, reflecting a particular day, weather and time, which would never be quite the same again. A ratherly painterly, delicate look - very appealing to me.
The one minor thing that catches my eye, and I'd have altered, is the bright sky at the bottom left edge of that main peak, and along that ridge sloping down to the left. In fact, looking closely, a bit of a "halo" along the skyline, a common processing artifact. I append an edit where I've burnt in the area. In the process, I've introduced another artifact of a greenish tinge in the cloud at the bottom left of that main tower, but I hope you get the idea.
All the same, the image "works" just fine for me.