For some reason access to the pier was blocked this morning, so I drove over the the parking lot at East Beach. The water in the foreground is Mission Creek Estuary. Anacapa Island is on the horizon.
I was using the Composer with the plastic optic. Wow! What effects!!! That's a plain old flock of seagulls, not an overlay. I don't know how Lensbaby made them transparent.
Colors were heavily tweaked in curves. The "moon" was actually setting behind me. I cut and pasted from another shot.
What a moment - that veritable highway of birds. I see this with a closer crop - meaning chop off a lot of the sky at top - to emphasize the "highway" impact even more.
Damn, now you told us about the moon it looks like you used the eraser brush at 50% opacity. That said I didn't have a clue until I read your notes so it must be a good job :) I think the solitary person sets the scene off nicely.
Oh, what a wonderful use for Lensbaby. This is delicious. You blended the moon so well that I didn't realize it was pasted until I read your notes. I like the colors. The green and orange is an unusual combination.
Wow is right! I think this is my favorite of yours so far. The gradation of colors in the sky is quite lovely, and the unexpected coloring adds to the mood.
I have spent many an hour fishing at Anacapa, actually. I probably fed those gulls' great-grandparents :-) This is a trippy effect. I am wishing, based on yours and Ecce's works, that I had the ability to exchange for the plastic optic; my 3G just has the double-glass, so it's the sharpest of the bunch. That's why I keep going OOF deliberately :-)
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