I got to wondering today about what I would get if I used no filter at all on my full spectrum camera. The result kind of surprised me.

The first image is the one straight out of the camera. The sky is trending toward purple and the leaves a dull orangish red.

But Lightroom has a fabulous recently new tool in the Point Color Tool. With that tool, I set out to fix the sky. Has an eyedropper to sample the sky and then allows adjustments to that sky. In the Blue Sky Adjustments, note that the small circles are where the original setting were at. And the large circles are where I drug it to. The bigger box on the left side represents Hue Shift (horizontal movement) and Saturation Shift (vertical movement). And the box on the right side is just Luminosity Shift (vertical movement). I just then started at the small circles and dragged the larger circles to a place I liked. Notice also that there are three sliders that the range of these movements. I did not make any changes to the ranges.

The second box is the one where I picked the color of the leaves and decided to turn them into a more pleasing color.

And this in turn generated the resultant final image result as shown. If you use Lightroom, and haven't yet discovered the Point Color Tool, it's a good one to learn. It came out last year, I forgot which revision.

Late last eve our little dog started making wimpering noises and my wife went to the back door to see what the fuss was about. She opened the door and told me to come peek quickly. There was a juvenile opossum getting a drink in our backyard. I grabbed my camera and followed him where he hid behind our A/C unit and edge of the house. After tinkering with camera settings in the dark for a minute, I was able to capture his face (thanks to the SB400 speedlight).

In California the opposum is a protected species. They are very timid creatures. No harm became of this guy and he at the scraps of bread we left for him. We are certain his relatives are in the area.