Utah lake sunset

Ben Egbert

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Utah lake has a haze most days which really narrows the histogram. Spreading it out without messing up the colors is difficult.

Here is a 3000 wide jpg to work with.


Here is my best effort which I am not happy with.

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JimFox

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I am heading out in a few to Trail run, and then I am seeing Sonic the Hedgehog tonight at the movies, so I won’t be able to do any edits until tonight.
 

Jameel Hyder

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Its a great image Ben and has a lot of potential. Here is my quick attempt. I lightened the water and added a bit of motion blur - Somehow dark cyan cast to the water doesn't work for me.

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JimFox

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The brightest clouds Ben feel like they are blowing out, you are losing detail in them now.
 

JimFox

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Here is mine, perhaps the saturation could be pushed more in the sky.

2 things struck me. Is that the image felt unlevel even though the shoreline was level, and the image felt unbalanced since the peaks on the left were lit up and not on the right in combination with the sloping down of the mountains on the right.

So cropping back to 2:3 format solved that for me. Not only did the image feel balanced, but it no longer felt unlevel.

I then also brightened the lit up areas a bit while darkening the non lit up area's a bit. The water I handled separately, pushing the cyan saturation to give it a bit of life and not darkening it.

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Ben Egbert

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Thanks Jim, good job and I like what you got. I think one thing that bothers me is the snow was pure white earlier in the week and after some melting looks a bit gritty. By that I mean the bare spots were covered earlier in the week.
 
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