In Nikon Capture: Auto Sharpening and changed to color mode Ia.
In Photoshop: Cropped, Levels, Unsharp Mask, Contrast, Color and Image size. Saved for Web.
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Great to get all these comments and, something to learn from each one. I had never taken a 2 sec shot before, and of course I got it wrong - thought 2 was two seconds. Now I know it is 2´´. And then I could have moved a few stops instead. Thank you all - and even 1 fave :-)
I checked in forum, and saw that I would not get DQ'ed and entered because I really wanted to see how it would do. But I do try to meet the challenge every time.
Very brave ... (I like high key photos and composition like this but I am not quite sure how this would be received here.) But your passion is quite admirable. The only criticism I can offer you is the midplacement between top and bottom makes this composition static - if you place it somewhere an inch up or down, the division between top and bottom would be unequal and would offer additional movement/tension. 9.
I enjoy the flooding of light, but it has washed out the detail on the boat. Perhaps if you changed the stops to let in a bit less, it would have kept the detail and still acheived the flooded isolation you appear to be going for.
I'm really undecided about this one. I could take it as a creative use of a 2-second exposure to drive everything except the boat and man to pure white. Or I could take it as an over-processed, not sharp, image that is unrelated to the challenge. I'll decide later.
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