Feb 1
Semi-light
I can handle sunlight and I can handle overcast, but when it’s blue skies above and sunlight heavily filtered through a persistent cloud bank in the horizon, I came completely undone. 
I just couldn’t make any sense out of it, it was light but it also wasn’t? I was totally uninspired to take any pictures despite the delightfully frosty trees. But out of principle, I took a few frames and when I came home, I found that I wasn’t the only one with problems. Lightroom was none the wiser about the light and no matter how I tried to adjust the WB I got nowhere fast. Everything looked unnatural so in the end the only way to go with the picture was to go over the top.
Would you believe that the colour temperature is 5000K? Almost a daylight WB and so blue, without any adjustment to any colour channel. Add a generous over-exposure and vignetting and the result is… uhh, the jury is still out. But at least I tried.
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You were out quite early, I think? Late afternoon gave quite nice light. (although, it was still so very very cold)
Vignetting…negative such, eh? Works, but I would still lighten the upper center part, as now upper left corner looks too light for me. Especially right above the pine.
Actually I was out in the afternoon. The sun only made it above the bank of clouds right at noon, and of course I missed it.
Yeah I noticed that about the corner. But you know what? I just didn’t care. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well – I keep saying it but I don’t live by it.