Tip: Lake Elton is not blue - and it’s not winter but September. The lake is ridiculously shallow and is extremely salty and that’s what you are seeing.
Hi @JimPlaxco and welcome! For play raw images we generally ask that the image be released under a creative commons license, it doesn’t really matter which one. Can you explicitly assign a license please?
For my part, the top have of the image below is the output from Rawtherapee while the bottom half was done using Photoshop. The colors in the RT version are more natural and thus closer to reality which is what I want. However, I like the heightened contrast of the Photoshop version.
One thing I’d like to point out is that the Photoshop auto contrast tool produces dramatically different results depending on whether you are working in RGB mode or LAB mode. In this case I used LAB mode to make contrast adjustments as well as initial color adjustments - then finished up in RGB mode.
Hi Ingo, wonderful job. The best of all the ones done so far and better than the Google Earth representation at the same level of resolution - which uses images from Digital Globe rather than Landsat.
