Seriously. Sometimes, not always but sometimes, you can play with settings in Lightroom and Photoshop and end up with an end result that looks good.
This photo is a good example. I took this this past winter on a dreary day. The natural color... if you can call it that... had more grays and blacks. And to be honest, I like this series in its natural colors as well. But, when I imported them into Lightroom, just to amuse myself, I played with some settings... mostly the white balance... and came up with this. I will admit that I was a bit surprised at my reaction. I liked it. It has a warmer, yet surreal, feel to it. At the same time, it doesn't really have any pretense of being real or natural.
On of my earliest blog posts has a lake scene in Michigan where I shot the same scene during a foggy sunrise with several different white balances in the camera. The natural color was yellow-ish. Others were blue, purple, and so on. They were all great, yet for different reasons.
Experimentation. Give it a try!
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