Low tide at Carr Inlet on southern Puget Sound, looking southeast past Fox and McNeil Islands. Editing suggestions courtesy of [user]Bear_Music[/user].
-Tripod, timer, manual mode, manual focus
-Onboard flash fired, rear-curtain sync
-Focal Length 36mm (35mm EQ)
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Many RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves through various masks
-Some local Burning-in
-Second pass of noise-reduction to composite image
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-Dodging to highlight stars
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 300KB
File: NiteMud_IMG_5853v2-DPC
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Not my style of processing. It's hard to determine the depth on this shot. On the positive side. It's just an opinion from someone who doesn't take many landscape shots. 5
A nice composition, but it's a bit hard to see the mud flats. There's quite a bit of "blotchiness" and color noise which detracts from the overall quality of the presentation, but I the city lights on the hills beyond.