Sky palette

This comp works well for me Ron. The image colors and processing are both beautiful and natural to my eye. (Given that, you may want to reduce the blue.(joking)) The mood is very appealing as well. No suggestions of any kind. I like it very much as posted.

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Nicely balanced light Ronald, those intense sunset yellows are often a challenge for me to get right. You've managed to pull plenty of natural-looking detail out of the foreground hills. It's amazing how often the skies in DV are this dramatic for someplace with so little precipitation.

It's great to see someone else working with a less than top end camera and getting the results that I've seen you post here

D.A. - I put my limited resources into quality lenses. The little T3i is not only less expensive, but also smaller and lighter than full-sensor cameras (and it has the flip out LCD monitor!). The light weight offsets the heavier lenses in the back pack, and I've been very happy with the image quality (as long as I don't crop much). Only when the light is very low requiring higher ISOs does noise become a problem, and I admit it very quickly does. Really can't use anything above ISO 400. I should add that proper sharpening can really transform an image. Tony Kuyper's sharpening-for-web actions seem to work very well.

Nice set of colors and clouds in the sky, Ronald, with enough foreground to keep things interesting. I do think the blues in the top half of the sky are a bit strong. Try knocking the blue sat. down by 10 or 20 points in LR and see what you think. I don't think that will effect the turquoise along the right horizon, which I think looks good.

Beautiful fiery sky! That yellow cloud edge really makes it for me.

Did you try cropping to a 3:1 pano? In this, I find my eyes wandering the sky more than the lower portion of the image. I think a 3:1 will really emphasize the foreground and great sunset. The clouds are interesting up top...so its just another taste of the view.