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Madcap, I have to tell you that, to my eye, the blues look a bit unnatural in the above photo. Is it because the sun was so bright or because of your camera settings, no polarizing filter, et cetera?
It's an interesting image! If it is viewed with an editor... drop the saturation by some huge amount, until the water looks more realistic, and then change the white balance to shift it away from cyan towards red.
That makes the skyline in the background appear a little pinkish as it would with a sunset or sunrise, and has a little pinkness to the sky above it too, though the sky at the top stays very cyan colored. The water becomes a nice deep blue. By adjusting saturation the water and the sky can be taken a bit more towards gray, or left a little bit over saturated to get a bit of pop.
To get real pop, add just a little bit of Unsharp Mask, but care has to be taken not overdo that.
Of course that is entirely a different image than what Madcap wanted to show everyone, and while the manipulation that I'm suggesting makes it more "mainstream", it doesn't necessarily make it better, just different.
I posted a similar picture a couple of pages back, but that was a film camera and tonight I happened to be in the same spot with my digital camera and tripod, so here it is:
I can't rep you again yet, Lamplight, but that is one beautiful image. I'm always a sucker for sunsets and silhouettes, but I also like the viewpoint you shot from with the silhouetted trees in the foreground, the distribution of the sailboats and the city lights with their reflections in the water. Great job!
Taken from the locomotive of a moving freight train... (a few minutes before we went over that bridge in front of the waterfalls)
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