Ivan Garcia said:
Hi Johan.
Yes my monitor is calibrated.
The cast is intentional.
It accentuates the oxidised look on the rocks and water. I did this just to illustrate Don L technique, and I could not help messing with the looks of the picture, I should have applied a mask to confine the effect, but I didn't.
Kind regards
IGD
There are some very influential 'rules' in traditional landscape photography. Everyone is free to break them of course, but it is interesting to see that most of the top players in the field tend to follow certain 'guidelines', if you will.
Two of the 'rules' that I personally follow are these:
1. Whites should be white. Waterfalls are white, cumulus clouds on a sunny day are white. The eye/brain expects certain things to be certain colours and, when they are not, an image can look slightly 'wrong'. Magenta is one of the worst casts to have because very little in nature causes a magenta cast. Green is to be avoided too.
2. In a vista or scenic type shot everything should be sharp. This is not a purist approach a la F64 club, it is a consequence of autofocus eyes. Everything we look at in a scene is sharp, so a photo that has a blurred foreground looks odd - the eyes want to focus on the forground but can't, thus the 'wrongness'. Differential focus is not a natural effect and is very hard to see with the naked eye. It is a powerful tool in some cases, sport, wildlife, macro but for scenes/vistas it is usually to be avoided.