Taken at Cape Conran, Victoria, Australia. Took a while of climbing around on slippery rocks trying not to break my camera to find this spot. setup and waited for sunrise...
3 exposures, manually hdr'd in photoshop w/layers. foreground long exposure for smooth water, sky short exposure to capture colour in sky.
Extensive shopping involved...
- mask layers to have sky vs water/rocks image merged
- curves brightening water a touch
- colour shift on water to cool and warming on rocks
- gradient overlays from top and bottom
- overall vignette
- yellow/red saturation boosted in sky only
- selectively sharpened rocks
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