"King tides" are the highest high tides of the year, occurring with a particular alignment and timing of the Sun-Moon-Earth relationship. There is a community effort to document these tides at various locations as a way to help predict the effect of rising sea levels. This particular set of images was taken about 14 minutes after the predicted time of the highest water. The deck of the pier is usually several feet above the waterline.
-tripod, timer, manual mode, manual focus
-FL 432mm (35mm EQ)
-Graduated ND filter
-Stitched from 4 frames with AutoStitch
-RGB Curve to sky-water through mask
-RGB Curve
-Non-destructive dodgle/burn
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 288KB
File: Pier_IMG_3548-51p25DPCusm.jpg
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