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Looking out from Brayhead this evening
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Yes, very nice image David. Would you mind sharing your setting or even your post processing, I would like to try something like this myself.
Dave.
Hi Dave, it was a trial really, I haven’t shot a night-time sea scape before and was on a time constraint. Sadly my histogram only went about halfway to the right out of the camera. In LR I had to:
+exposure 2.30
+16 contrast
+61 Whites
-29 BlacksThen I processed this through Silver EFEX Pro (full Spectrum preset).
Back in lightroom I locally upped exposure and a little clarity on the rocks.
If I had the time, I would rather have given the exposure an extra 4 minutes
F9 / ISO500 / 35mm / 4min / Auto WB
Thx for the feedback guys.
Very nice. How did you get the starburst effect or was it that way out of camera ? Were you using any ND filters ?
Mark S.
Hi Mark,
No filters used, starburst is Baily Lighthouse in Howth I believe.
Thanks for info, something to new to try out given the right conditions.
Dave.
Lovely. Thanks for sharing.
RAS – what do or would you recommend for fixing the noise ? thanks.
Hi mark, if shot in raw I would use the raw image editor and a useful thing to do also is to add motion blur to the sky layer in the direction of the natural cloud movement to get rid of the last of the noise. Reduce the opacity of your brush to blend the blurred sky toward the bottom to retain your light house light and to ensure the processing appears natural
Regarding noise reduction, if you have NIK’s collection, you can use Dfine to reduce noise or in Silver EFEX Pro, use some control points to reduce fine structure, this second solution can also give a nice cloud smoothness also.
I went to print this for a friend today, was politely told because I boosted the exposure in LR, due to too short an i9n camera exposure, it just would be a looker. So there was another new lesson for me. Guess I will just have to try again when time allows :)
Thanks lads, much appreciate the info.
Yep, I have Nik’s collection. Have a couple of problematic photos which suffer from blue sky noise.cheers
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