Shot on a 42-ft trawler doing about 6 knots on a ride from a marina in Portsmouth to Newport, RI. I was lucky enough to have a storm quickly move in right around sunset as we approached Newport harbor. This is definitely not "out of the camera", although I think it looks a lot closer to how I saw the sky.
Tone mapped in Photomatix Pro, used Topaz adjust to add some color/texture to the sky and the wood on the deck, lens correction filter to add a little vignette, levels adjustment to brighten the foreground, some dodge/burn in various places, hue/saturation adjustment to tone down the yellows in the foreground.
As a semi-noob to DPC, this is my first "best of" challenge, and since I picked my shot in the first day or two of the challenge announcement, I drove myself nuts tweaking this picture over the next 3 weeks. I have 14 versions of this photo in a folder, and after looking at them consecutively, I can barely remember why I liked or disliked any of them. Oh well, I had a blast taking this shot, and I'm glad I get to enter it so many months later.
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