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    Default Sunrise back in New England

    I posted a few sunrises from my Florida vacation last month. I wen to the beach this morning to capture a New England sunrise. I was able to use neutral density filters to blur the water.

    D3X 24-120 at 38 mm. iso 100. 2 image hdr 3 seconds and 5 seconds at f/11.

    I cropped a bit to elongate the image and get the sun near the rule of third point.

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    A lovely scape here Allan.
    I love the blurred water, the serene colour palette and the fact that the rocks don't jut out above your horizon line.
    I do think you could perhaps try to recover a bit more detail in the very dark parts on top of the rocks, just to get the exposure there equal to the rest of the rocks?
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    Simply lovely, and to make it better IMHO

    A hint of CW, and

    the bottom line on the lower left where it goes dark along the frame line, I would use the content-aware tool and run a thin line along that frame line to eliminate the darkness; it just catches my eye. If you do on onscreen scroll about half-way between the bottom frame and your signature you will see what the change on the left side that I prefer.
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    Thank you for the comments. I think the horizon looks pretty level to me. I did rotate it some.
    There is detail in the rocks on the full size tiff. Something lost in resizing and saved as level 9 jpg.

    Jay, I do see what you mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allanrube View Post
    Thank you for the comments. I think the horizon looks pretty level to me. I did rotate it some.
    There is detail in the rocks on the full size tiff. Something lost in resizing and saved as level 9 jpg.

    Jay, I do see what you mean.
    I would agree - looks level to me!
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    Hi Allan, I first took the image into LR4, hit "R" to open up the level pallet. When that is open, do you work in LR so that I am preaching to the choir (?), if you put your cursor outside of the image and click it brings up a small pattern grid that you can use to level. I gave this a .19 CW. The screen shot shows how that is done.

    I then went into CS5 to use the content-aware fill tool to eliminate any dark spots along the bottom frame. I wanted the feel of endlessness and the dark spots were for me small breaks in the smoothness of the water.

    BTW, taking it into CS5 resulted in my seeing a halo around the rocks which I now see in the OP. Caused by sharpening?

    Hope you don't mind what I did.
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    I just think that this is a lovely landscape and if you say that there is detail in rocks in the tiff, then I wouldn't change anything. I love the texture of the water, and the colour palette is beautiful. I like the strong diagonal line made by the rocks.

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    A beautiful picture with a great atmosphere.

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    Jay, thanks for all you have done with this photo. I appreciate it. I definitely will take a bit off the bottom as you suggested. In fact, I think I went back to my saved tiff last night and did this already.
    I will revisit the need for rotation. My low tech method of leveling when dealing with the horizon is to open a new folder on my Mac and stretch it so it is as wide as the image. Then I place the folder in front of the image and raise it so that that top of the folder is a tiny bit below the horizon, trying to see if I see as much sea all the way across the image.
    I only use PS CS5, except in this case where I merged the two images in Photomatix Pro 4. I can't remember which preset I used, but I dialed down the strength to offset halos. This is a constant problem in PM pro causing me to use merging less and less all the time.

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    Allan,

    Perfect use of a low shutter speed to achieve an attractive look to the water.

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    Very nice feel to this image. I also like the fact that the rocks do not break the plane of the horizon for this one. Some great thoughts and comments above. Love those slow shutters.

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    Hi Allan....I am a fan of long exposures and this is one of the best I have seen. Congrats!

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    Allan - beautiful colors and the comp works really well. Love the blurred water.

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    I really like the blurred water and soft colors. Rocks look OK on my monitor.

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    this is fantastic! i love the way the rock leads my eye to the sun.

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    Gorgeous, I would not change a thing from the OP.
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    Hi Allan, beautifully blurred water, love the rocks and the colors in the sky too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by allanrube View Post
    . . . I merged the two images in Photomatix Pro 4. I can't remember which preset I used, but I dialed down the strength to offset halos. This is a constant problem in PM pro causing me to use merging less and less all the time.
    I don't find haloing to be a problem with this image. In fact, I think I like everything just the way it is. One pretty effective way to deal with haloes in Photomatix is to bring the appropriate original exposure in as a layer. Then, using the right blend mode and, perhaps, some masking can often take care of it.

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