Jade2

[Garth Herrick]

Lon does have a point. What kind of story are you trying to tell with this quality of light? I have never been to Arizona, but I would imagine the skies are generally clear as a bell, as opposed to the typical eastern seaboard sky which is generally hazy, humid, oppressive and muggy. The Photoshop sky proposal may be a more "pleasing" color relationship, especially to those from the east who are accustomed to such soft colored skies; but to me it does not jive with the dramatic hard quality of lighting on the figure. Perhaps in an English type landscape situation you could get away with the sky representing changeable weather, with a dark neutral gray sky in the background contrasting with a shaft of setting sunlight in the foreground lighting the figure dramatically as you have. For the clear dry type of environment that is native to this figure, the clear blue sky makes sense, it seems.

Garth