Black turnstone foraging along the beach yesterday morning. The light is probably too hard (as is usually the case here in Santa Barbara) but I was wonder what you all thought. Anything I should do differently? I removed a couple of distracting stones/reflections in the background.
Technical Bits
Nikon D80
Nikon 80-200 + 1.4 TC
ISO 200 f/4.8 1/750sec matrix metering, no EC, no Flash
I liked it a lot so I did lots of work on it including removing about a zillion specular highlights...
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Thanks for the suggestions folks. I'm never sure how much to pump up the contrast. Sometimes I think I go to far so I tried to restrain myself in this one.
Removing the specular highlights sure makes the light look much softer. Thanks for the edit.