A few days ago, I posted a sunset shot that I got after a storm looking over some vineyards in Germany. Most people liked the shot in general, but felt that the sun flare distracted from the overall feel of the shot.
I just got around to printing it today, and while I had PS open, I took the flare out. I dropped it into NIK Color Effects just to see how it would look with a glow, but I accidentally hit the wrong tab. I got "Graduated Filter" instead. I opens by default with a graduated blue filter, and I was startled by how natural it looked! No sharp horizontal line, like PS might have given, no, to me this looked like an authentic blue sky, just as you would really see.
So I am posting it here, to see what you all think. From where you sit, does the blue look natural, or edited in? With the addition of the blue, I did not crop the sky, as I had on the previous thread - good decision or bad? What about the colors in general - blue, yellow, green? Do they work? Anything out of place?
If you want to compare it directly to the original HERE is that thread.
Anything else?
Rad
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