I really really wanted to enter this into the fireworks challenge. Unfortunately, this was taken about 50 minutes before the fireworks challenge entered, and no update was ever made to that challenge to include Saturday night (a severe oversight, IMHO).
This photo was taken after my family was done shooting off our own fireworks. I proceeded to the end of the dock where I setup my camera for across the lake photos. While sitting there, I noticed that a few doors down the neighbors were still shooting some off the lake, so I turned the camera 90 degrees and got this magnificent photograph. Just after they shot this one, their night ended, which gave me only a single photo from that vantage point. I'm sure glad it was a good one :)
Post Processing:
* Crop
* Increase exposure a lot (introduced a ton of noise)
* Increased recovery
* Decreased black point
* Increase brightness
* Shadows (more noise)
* Topaz DeNoise (this program did wonders!)
* White Balance
* Increase exposure slightly more
* Increase black point back to near normal level
* Increase contrast and definition
* Increase saturation and vibrancy
* Levels
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG
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One of my two 10s, because you actually told a story and then illustrated it beautifully. Congrats, and even better, you now have a spectacular memory of a special moment in a special place.
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