
Originally Posted by
David Thomasson
It's fine to leave the color cast, but here's one point to bear in mind: Nothing in the image tells viewers that this was taken
at dawn -- cues such as maybe a glimpse of still-dark sky with first light showing at the horizon, maybe a sliver of
moon. Such cues tell us the color cast is natural. The brain similarly adjusts to an orange cast when we see familiar signs
of sunset, so that we "instinctively" know a bride's orange dress is really white.
But without those cues, as in this image, it's just a blue-green color cast. My first impression was that the white balance
was very noticeably off. Ken, on the other hand, has probably been in those conditions many times. His experiences gave
him cues to what he was seeing, so the colors looked natural to him.