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Cathedral Rock on the Great Ocean Road, near Lorne, is not the most popular place along the route. In fact when we stopped here, there were only a couple of other people on the beach. That was okay with me, I had stopped for a shot of this sandy beach with the surf bouncing off the rocks and that great sky. I had everything I wanted here.

The road incidentally runs just along the base of that steep hill, so this is one of the views a driver has as he drives along it.

There is a lot of good information for this trip at: http://www.greatoceanroad.org/index.asp

Workflow was as follow:
Shot in Raw - NEF files adjusted for highlights and shadow
Rotated to level and cropped
Adjusted levels
Adjusted curves – land and sea done separately from the sky
Dodged and burned with overlay layer (5% opacity brush)
Selective noise reduction on the sky
Added a layer for sharpening and “over-sharpened” with Smart Sharpen
Modified sharpening with a layer mask (10% opacity black brush)
Saved as a tiff
For this post, further sharpened for the reduced size, framed, and saved as a jpeg