Dusk at Balanced Rock

[Roman Kurywczak]

Taken this Feb. about 15 minutes after the sun set using a tripod mounted Mark3 and the 28-135mm lens at 90mm for 5 sec. at f22. Also used a total of 4 stops of graduated ND filters, soft stop, and a Lee enhancing filter. With the enhancer...........did I put the colors over the top?
Comments welcomed and appreciated,
Roman

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[Paul Marcellini]

I seem to like a bit of saturation but I would say this seems pretty natural to me. This is beautiful and the colors all work very well together. The far mountains seem a little flat, and look almost pasted in, maybe a tad of contrast to them?

[Robert Amoruso]

Roman,

Luminous Landscape had an evaluation of this filter and he noted a pronounced magenta color cast that I notice here. I did a gray point balance and desaturated it a bit. Having never used this filter I did a Google on it and came up with the LL review at http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/filters.shtml and again at http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/comparison.shtml.

I also did a selective local contrast enhancement on the BG mountains. USM amount 30, radius 60.

My version above.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Robert,
I like it..........will give it a try on original. thanks,
Roman

[Robert Amoruso]

Hi Roman,

It will look a whole lot better on the original. Great image. The rock on left looks "very" balanced. :)

[Michael Pancier]

what a sight that must have been. love it.

[Alfred Forns]

Thanks for the link Robert !!!

Love the color intensity of these images Just magical Framing wise I would like to have seen more around the formation !!! Gorgeous !!!!

[Keith Rawlins]

Had a look at your last few images posted, Wd on achieving what we all set out to do well, and that is painting with light. Love the color saturation in your pics.