Beach & Barges

I got out with the camera for a couple of hours on Saturday, not really expecting to shoot anything interesting just out for the exercise more than anything.

I ended up at McDonald Beach where I found the lighting a bit of a challenge, but hey, no problem - I'd taken my tripod along (more weight to carry so more exercise...) so I just did some multiple exposure magic and pulled the result together with photomatix pro.

This shot (composite of 5 exposures) is looking south-east, and is just across the river from FRP, where Sherlock was barking up a storm as he played in the water with his usual tree trunk.

This is actually the second effort at this picture. The first, which I possibly liked better, was accidentally corrupted in Adobe Bridge so I had to redo it in photomatix; unfortunately I hadn't saved the settings I used and couldn't remember exactly what I'd done. There are enough variables to set in the detail enhancer that unless you have a really good memory or have saved the settings it's almost impossible to get the exact same result. I don't know how much that really matters though, as I played with it some more in photoshop anyway...

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