Mt. Wilbur +Edit

[AlanLichty]

Mt. Wilbur is one of the peaks along the Swiftcurrent trail in Glacier National Park. This is a fall scene taken from that trail in 2014 and I am hoping to see similar colors on a return visit next week.

Swiftcurrent Trail

• AlanLichty
• Sep 4, 2018

Mt. Wilbur looming over the Swiftcurrent trail in Glacier National Park.

C&C always welcome.

Edit: I changed the hue/saturation for the sky color. I am guessing the hue may be due to a Singh-Ray LB Warming polarizer I likely was using on that day as the sky looks the same in several images I took at around the same time.

Mt. Wilbur

• AlanLichty
• Sep 7, 2018

Mt. Wilbur in Glacier National Park. This is an edited version of the original.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Nice scene. The sky looks a bit dull to me - greenish/gray instead of nice blue. Color in the foreground looks good.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice one Alan.

 

[JimFox]

A nice looking peak you have there Alan.

 

[Zeph]

Beautiful scene Alan, Good luck with your upcoming trip, hopefully the fires won't be a problem.
OK, so who would name the peak Wilbur...

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice scene. The sky looks a bit dull to me - greenish/gray instead of nice blue. Color in the foreground looks good.

Curious - I checked the original RAW file and it looks almost identical as a hue to the image above. I did do a sanity check on my monitor calibration this morning just to be sure.

Beautiful scene Alan, Good luck with your upcoming trip, hopefully the fires won't be a problem.
OK, so who would name the peak Wilbur...

Internet search result:

This peak received its current name in 1885 when George Bird Grinnell named it for a business partner, E. R. Wilbur.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Alan, I don't doubt that this is close to the actual scene (esp. judging from the foreground, which looks good). If it were mine, and I was going for an eye candy pretty picture (beyond documentation), I'd creatively enhance the sky to make it more blue.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nice job, Alan.

 

[lionking]

Curious - I checked the original RAW file and it looks almost identical as a hue to the image above. I did do a sanity check on my monitor calibration this morning just to be sure.

Eyeballing WB could be very tricky, Camera Raw -Auto is usually a better starting point, but i would suggest the most popular approach:
boost the SAT and VIB to 100% and then play until loose all the cast, return the SAT and VIB to 0 and make slight changes to more pleasing/what seen in the field settings...

 

[BarryHamilton]

Another delightful scene, Alan!

 

[Mike Lewis]

Lovely capture of a lovely place! Glacier NP is magical, and the area around Swiftcurrent Lake is very special.

I see what the other poster is saying about the sky, but in truth if it had not been mentioned I would not have given it any thought at all.

ML

 

[AlanLichty]

Alan, I don't doubt that this is close to the actual scene (esp. judging from the foreground, which looks good). If it were mine, and I was going for an eye candy pretty picture (beyond documentation), I'd creatively enhance the sky to make it more blue.

I took some creative license and altered the hue of the sky along with some saturation and luminance tweaks. This did give it a much lighter sky color. I believe I had a Singh-Ray LB Warming polarizer on my lens when I shot this.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Nice work on the edit. I'd imagine the warming polarizer was the culprit (I've never used one).

 

[Alisa]

Very nice! this place is on my bucket list! Maybe next year!

 

[Ron Tuscany]

Subtle difference on my screen... Gorgeous work though!