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This shot was taken was taken at the entrance to Pagham Harbour, Sussex, UK. Where the picture was taken there is a sandbar across the Harbour Entrance so as the tide comes out the water is channelled at high speed. It then hits this Groyne supported by large rocks and pours over it like rapids. The effect is especially pronounced at a high spring tide which it was on Monday when the picture was taken.

To see the exact location go to the picture on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwinjones/10721609856/in/photostream/ and click on the location on the right to see a map

Thanks to friend and Bognor Camera Club member and flickr contact Roger Crocombe for a heads up about this location at a Club workshop on Landscape earlier this year. Roger has some great shots, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailyshotz/

The picture was taken with a Tripod with a Sony A550 with a Sigma 10-20mm zoom at 20mm. I used a BW 10 stop filter to reduce the light and get a 2.5 second exposure for the movement.

The image was opened in Camera Raw and 2 additional images were created at +2EV and -2EV  for a “false HDR” with each image having Noiseware Pro applied.  A Photoshop action I had saved was used to create the extra images automatically. The images were saved as tiffs. 

Photomatix

Outputted in Photomatix using Fusion natural settings

Photoshop

The image was brightened with a brightness contrast adjustment layer.

In Photoshop Topaz Adjust was used with detail 1 settings to add more detail with a layer mask used to remove the effect from highlights.

Curves were used to enhance

Saturation reds were used to bring up the red on the marker only using a layer mask.

Layers flattened before going on to sharpening.

Duplicate layer Noiseware Pro and standard sharpening with Unsharp mask.

Second duplicate layer with mask to apply extra sharpening and contrast with low amount and high radius using Unsharp mask (Clarity Effect) The settings were 28 amount and 28 radius. This effect was removed from highlights using a layer mask.

Crop for better composition.

BEFORE AND AFTER

Below are the Before and After images. First the original image. Then the tonemapped image and then the final result.

Original at 0EV

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Tonemapped image

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Final Image

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For Licence see Ocean Rapids Pagham

Edwin Jones