Crimson Sunset

I've been playing with creative color balancing and color grading on photos of clouds and the sky. This was my first experiment, and it started with asking, "What if the orange was red?" and it moved on from there.

The result is painterly, and I fell in love with the process. The sky with its variety of cloud and fog patterns is one of my favorite things about San Francisco, and this series is another way for me to enjoy it.

Image Description: Sunset from November 5, looking North toward downtown San Francisco (not visible in the photo). 

The photo's colors have been shifted. The orange sunlight scattered through the clouds is a gradient from pure red to red-violet. 

The shadows in the clouds are warm gray to navy blue. 

The sky gradient in the background peeking through is medium blue at the top and magenta toward the bottom of the photo with a band of violet running through the middle.