Summer theme.

Down at Mountbatten Beach, Plymouth, Devon at low tide. Even with the slight sea breeze it was hot.

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2. Not so sure about this one.

Might be my monitor (crappy laptop) but looks like the intense blue is getting the better of things and needs adjusting down a bit?

I agree with David, looking at the rocks it appears the white balance is too cool so experimenting with that in post processing would be worthwhile. For a long time I left the while balance in the camera settings at auto but found the results benefitted from editing; you don’t actually realise until you compare a warmer setting with the original. I get much better in-camera results by changing the camera setting to daylight for outdoor shots, or cloudy for when it is really overcast.

I am not finding the blue sky to be particularly intense. There is however certainly a cooling effect on the rocks which would benefit from some warming up.

I am wondering if there is a problem with the colour profile the images are tagged with. RTv4_sRGB seems to be a Raw Therapee propriety profile and not what I would normally expect for web postings ...... sRGB.

Colour profiles are a minefield, and in some cases less important these days when most browsers will deal correctly with profiles.

I wonder if LOT could re-post the images after changing the output colour space to sRGB and see if it makes any difference.

Thanks for the comments peeps again.
On the KP I checked my settings; WB = Daylight and Custom Image = Natural.
I changed the profile output on RT to the only one listed that I assume is the sRGB only = "No ICM; sRGB" from "RTv4_sRGB" which is the default on my Beta copy of RT (unless I changed it ages ago following advice from Andy Astbury).
I then looked at the outputs but couldn't see much difference at all. I can't really post them here as the one posted was also tweaked afterwards with GIMP which I use to boost contrast typically, and worse I think I deleted some copies.
Many thanks for the help here, I do tend to rush out the pics to the forum and should spend more time PP'ing the shots. In RawTherapee I also tend to use mainly exposure/curves/LAB adjustments using CC to boost 'saturation effect'. Then inevitably I 'forget' White Balance LOL. Still learning RT and the Local Adjustments available on this Beta version is great, also Spot Removal.
Oh after a search I found so much info on RTv4_sRGB etc, amazing.

Cheers.