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Frenchman\u2019s Bay Evening Peace<\/h4>\n

The further north you go in Maine, the longer the summer light lingers. This is past 8pm on the evening of a stormy day. Storms had passed and Frenchman\u2019s Bay (Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor) is smooth as glass and just about as clear. This was taken from the Narrows, near the Trenton bridge where you come on to Mount Desert Island, looking south east down the length of the bay. <\/p>\n

This is really about the light, of course, and the exposure had to be intentional to capture enough detail in the sky while showing the water in a natural light. Landscape program and selective metering (biased slightly for the sky buy tipping the camera up) handled it well. Post-processing in Lightroom helped to extend the apparent range to cover both sky and foreground, and bring out detail that would otherwise have been lost. <\/p>\n

I work only in jpeg. This kind of image might be easier to do in RAW\u2026but I can\u2019t say for sure. I know that this processed jpeg is very close to what I saw with my naked eye\u2026to what drew me to the scene in the first place. I was after the peace\u2026and here it is. It will repay a look in larger sizes. Click the image and use the size controls on the top of the window.<\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS at 28mm equivalent. F4.0 @ 1\/60th @ ISO 80. Landscape program. Landscape program on the SX20IS has an interesting feature: it defaults to infinity focus when it can not find focus, which is necessary in a shot like this with little for the sensors to focus on in dim light.<\/p>\n

Heavy Recovery for the sky in Lightroom 3, significant Fill Light for the foreground, Blackpoint just barely right, added Clarity and Vibrance, Sharpen narrow edges preset.<\/p>\n

From Acadia 2010<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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