Mt Baker under clouds

Mount Baker covered with clouds - taken from Richmond BC.

Any comments, recommendations or adjustments welcome.

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the composition is a cool shot. Something about all the colors just don't match. The yellow clouds look like sunset, the mountains have a slight magenta cast. The green trees look like Florida and the very cyan water looks like a beach scene... so it has this strange feel to it for me.

The clouds look like they can be selectively tweaked, more to the greyer cooler side. Try moving everything cooler. Desaturate the clouds and mountains... and it might look more natural.

I thought the same thing, did a quickie edit.

Thanks Brad and Kurt.

Brad, I like these changes. Sometimes less color saturation does work better. I see that you desaturdated but also seemd to change some fo the colors (the water has changed). Please let me know what you did to each area.

Cheers.

Sure thing, just a quick 2 minute PS job. I created 2 saturation layers & cropped it .
1) increase saturation in the blues only masked to affect water and mountains
2) desaturated all color, only masked to affect clouds and snow caps to get rid of the yellow tint
3) cropped to level horizon

I think the yellow in the clouds and the magenta and blues in the sky were what made me go "hmm" the first time. Liked the composition though, I'd kill for mountains like that around here.

It is always better to adjust a RAW file, but I gave an attempt at color correcting the JPEG posted above.

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Interesting to see the the different result that each of you have come up with. Brad has a little too much purple in the water and the mountains but I really like the grey sky. Kurt has more green in the mountains and the water. I'm going to play around with this one a bit but like what I see so far. May have a good final picture with all of the input. I will add my changes to the thread. Thanks guys.

Here is my try.
Brought it into raw converter and adjusted white balance and desaturated the magenats and a bit of the greens and blues. Used the sharpening and noise reduction of the converter. After in photoshop brought the contrast down, darkend the highlights and ran a curves adjustment.

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