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Guardians of the Waterway
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Challenge: Mucking About with Boats (Standard Editing)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Olympus PEN-F
Lens: Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date: Jul 11, 2017
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Date Uploaded: Jul 18, 2017

 This coastguard boat was tasked with patrolling between our cruiseship and the coastline, to ensure no other watercraft got in the way of the floating behemoth. It had to chase down several overly-excited jetskis and at least one wayward tourist boat in the short distance between the pier and the entrance of the harbour.

Processing: Lots of adjustment layers in Macphun Luminar (along with probably a touch too much vignette), followed by crop/resize/sharpen in theGIMP.

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Place: 18 out of 53
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Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS
 07/27/2017 09:19:22 AM
Hello from the critique club

An interestng image that meets the challenge well.

I like your high viewpoint and the diagonal you have chosen to shoot it from it makes for a more dynamic image. The wash indicates that the boat is travelling at some speed again helping the dynamic tension. There are a couple of things that let it down for me, 1, the vignetting in the corners and 2, it feels over-saturated. Its possible that these are the genuine colours but if that is the case I would have been tempted to apply a little desalt to make it look more natural. Thanks for your entry Manic.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
 07/25/2017 10:33:29 PM
Exciting action shot. Is that a machine gun in the bow?
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Canon EOS-80D
 07/23/2017 10:05:49 AM
Nice shot.
Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/19/2017 04:18:58 PM
Terrific blues and greens.
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Sony DSLR-A550
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 07/19/2017 01:44:59 AM
the angle makes this shot very well done

vote 7
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