Aerial perspective

[mikemeister_admin]

Continuing on from Mike's observations and going back in time...

Leonardo di Vinci used Aerial perspective (that gradual hazy blueing of distance) in many of his masterpieces - particularly The Virgin on the Rocks
http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/vinci/rocks.jpg- although this image is a bit warmer than the original.

You can read more on the subject at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_perspective

where it says
"In art, especially painting, aerial perspective refers to the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detailed, and bluer than near objects."

One of the things that I feel is important when we prepare an image is to lead the viewer's eye into the picture and emphasis different aspects to get across our message/story.  This sometimes requires that we do not attempt to exactly get the colours or tones correct.  The old masters knew how to paint scenes that wow'ed the public - we've just got to do the same!!

Slightly pushing my boat - I tried this the other day with one of my shots which you may see
http://www.broadhurst-family.co.uk/lefteye/MainPages/WoW.htm
and I thought it so important (to me anyway) that I wrote up what I did in both in thought and deed (alas not using CM, which I now realise I should have) on the links at the bottom of the page.

Hope this helps.
Chris

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Well, I think that this is a wonderful image, and I read with fascination the many steps that you went through to achieve it.

Hopefully you will, and perhaps have already, picked up some new tools in this class that will help you to do similar things in the future. 

I will only mention, in passing, that the basic ability to produce an image with no color cast was also firmly in DaVinci's bag of tricks.  Where you go from that first stepping stone is your rightful choice.

[mikemeister_admin]

Agreed Mike - if we can completely remove the cast we can then always change things after that - but we can not remove it in the first place we havent got a hope of flavouring it later.