Port Angeles

[The Barbarian]

 

[HughGuessWho]

Needs a bit more processing. Never saw a sky that color. Needs more contrast / clarity. I would remove the red post.

Cant do too much with the posted image since it is so small in file size.

Just a quick and dirty edit to demonstrate my thoughts.

 

[Didereaux]

This was taken a couple weeks back from the top of that ridge you have in the background( Hurricane Ridge). I have tried to get the colors as close as possible to what they actually were. This was an AM shot 8-9 ish. Nothing but a snapshot but it gives you some sky color that is pretty accurate for the time. oh yeah, and that Red Lion is way overpriced!

 

[HughGuessWho]

Now, I like that last picture. Would have been nice if there were some clouds in that sky, but, otherwise, nice capture.

 

[The Barbarian]

It does look better with the post removed, but it's a tricky thing to recreate the background. As you may have noticed, unless you're very careful, you leave patterned artifacts, and blurred areas. There was a lot of haze and the sky was not sky blue. Likewise, increasing contrast of the mountains produces what looks like sharpening artifacts.