We need a better color separation, hence this rise. I have a lot of rocks in this photo, and high clarity would produce too many distracting details. Usually, for landscape, I would shift it to the left and increase contrast, but for cinematic, we don’t need a lot of contrast, so with this change, I’m removing the black in the shadows making it gray. A little shift to the right will give us some brilliance and overall more positive look. Plus, for cinematic effect, we need to push this slider even more, sometimes even to the max. The same applies to the shadows – we need to recover details. It is a general approach to shift the slider to the left to recover some details in highlights. Around +50 is an average for the low contrast conditions like I had before sunrise. For nearly every photo you need to increase contrast. The photo is slightly underexposed (to save the details in the sky), so I have increased the Exposure a bit. For sunrise shots, Auto white balance doesn’t always do a good job.

I’m pretty happy with the default White balance produced by the camera in this case.

Cinematic preset lightroom