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This is another shot from my unsuccessful Snowy Owl Prowl down the coast from Biddeford Pool to Kennebunk last week. Unsuccessful in finding an owl that is. From a photographic point of view I found much of interest in the massive waves and lowering sky as a front passed over and out to sea. <\/p>\n
Directly off the point at East Point in Biddeford Pool waves coming in from the north east met waves coming in from the south east to create a cross wave effect that I could have watched for hours. The dynamic and the energy of the water was breathtaking. I did my best to catch a bit of that energy in images like the one above. <\/p>\n
Canon SX40HS at about 90mm equivalent field of view. f4 @ 1\/500th @ ISO 125. Program with iContrast and \u20131\/3EV exposure compensation. <\/p>\n
Processed in Lightroom. Besides my usual Intensity (fill light and blackpoint) and Sharpness adjustments I applied a Graduated Filter Effect from the bottom to bring up brightness and contrast\u2026and then a second GFE from the top to pump up Clarity and Contrast to give the clouds slightly more definition. This is on the edge of being hyper-real<\/em>, in the way many HDR treatments \u201cgo reality one better\u201d and create a scene that is more dramatic than what the naked eye would actually see. (Some HDR treatments, in my opinion, boarder on the surreal. I don\u2019t go there.) I think this image strikes a good balance. <\/p>\n Just for comparison, here is the same image with more intense tone-mapping in LightZone and final processing in Lightroom. This one is hyper-real\u2026but it certainly has impact. <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/MaineHome\/East-Point-Biddeford-Pool\/i-t42kmbd\/0\/L\/IMG3876lzn-L.jpg?resize=700%2C525\")
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