Sunrise Cayman Brac

[Andrew McLachlan]

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Experimented a bit with this sunrise scene from my Cayman Brac trip. After making some basic adjustments and evicting 100+ dust spots, I guess you could say I slacked off on the sensor cleaning :S3: I added a slight diffused effect in Nik Color Efex.

Nikon D800
NIkon 80-400mm VR lens @ 80mm
ISO 50
f22 @ 1/13 sec
Mefoto Roadtrip Tripod

Look forward to comments.

[Don Railton]

Hi Andrew.. Beautiful sky, got to love those rays bursting out from the cloud... Maybe a little NR required?? I too would like to have a talk with the person who invented dust.. Its just not on..

DON

[Diane Miller]

Wow! What a dramatic sky with wonderful light on the water -- I love it!

This is one where you could play all day with tweaks to midtone detail (things like Detail Extractor and High Pass "sharpening") but I think you've taken it to an excellent point here.

[Diane Miller]

PS -- sensor dust -- there was a thread somewhere a while back about the Sensor Gel stick. I got one and it is fabulous!!

https://photographylife.com/product/sensor-gel-stick

[Don Lacy]

Hi Andrew, Lovely cloud formation and who does not like God Beams, my only issue and its more personal taste than a critique and that is I wish you had not blown the small areas around the top of the cloud formation.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Thanks folks for the comments, much appreciated. Diane, thanks for the link to the sensor gel stick...it looks like a decent product that is worth giving a try.

[peter delaney]

Beautiful Andrew

would work as a great B&W too..

Peter