A work in progress...
4 frame exposure blend, mostly for the waves & splashes on the rock. I added the birds to the left as a new PS doc from LR, the original 4 frames blended doc was 1.95GB.
I started out in the middle of the beach, looking out I struggled with finding a good composition. I stopped, took a minute to relax & looked beyond what was in front of me. The waves we big & consistent, I then saw what I didn’t see before as I looked to the bottom of the mountain & saw the waves pounding the cliffs! I had my 24-105 on but wasn’t long enough. I swapped to my 100-400mm with the 1.4 teleconverter. So the effective focal length racked out was 560mm. I took a few test shots with the auto & manual focus & of course, I could get sharper images using manual focus but it was windy so I had to check my focus after every 2 shots.
*TIP: Before you start to open multiple images in PS, make sure that you straighten your horizon on all of the images & try to match the colors, such as the waves to have more consistency in the color tones & brightness when blending. If you don’t that’s more work for you later on.
RAW image straight out of camera, Base layer in PS
4 frame blend 1.95GB
Bird layers
RAW Image #1, waves splashing on the midground rocks.
RAW Image #2, sea spray in the air over the midground rocks.
RAW Image #3 wave layer
RAW Image #4, this is my base foundation layer. All the spray above the rocks, the waves & bird layers were stacked above this & blended using layer masks.
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