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Walking On Water (Peverill Point Long Exposure), Swanage

I've still got a couple more strangers shots to post from Venice, but thought I'd mix things up a little. The project is already overwhelming my Photostream!

 

Here's a quick long exposure from last night, out on Peverill Point in Dorset. I used a flashlight/torch to paint in the seaweed and spray - it could certainly be more even, but I only got one go before the sea reclaimed my vantage point.

 

The light from the left is a mix of blue hour and Bournemouth's light pollution. The shots that followed were a little too orange from sodium vapour lighting.

 

UPDATE 2: (!) Still not quite happy with the banding, I switched to a SOOC version of the sky. From my monitor that leaves just one patch of banding at the top of the screen. That's uploading to Flickr as a 11.8Mb file without any tweaks - no noise reduction, no WB, no sharpening, etc. I turned everything off. It's better but still not perfect! Shot at ISO on the 5D MKiii so, really shouldn't have an issue, but there we go.

 

UPDATE: This is my second upload of this shot. The compression on uploading the first brought out a lot of banding, that was unapparent in the Lightroom version. I get a lot of issues uploading skies, and note contacts saying the same thing, so hope it's an issue the magic donkey is working on. I added 2% noise and a brush>splatter filter to the sky in an attempt to protect it this time round. It looks fine on iPad, but if I lower my head on the desktop monitor it still looks a little harsh. Commentary on this front would be hugely appreciated.

 

Hope everyone is having a great Easter!

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