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Spires of St. Kilda (40)
JPlumb
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 828 W: 203 N: 1011]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (3123) | As I was walking down the beach towards the St. Kilda Pier, I could see the marina, and I could see the buildings from the CBD in Melbourne. I hoped to be able to marry the two up together. As it turns out there is a position, just a few feet further down the pier from where I was standing for the Kiosk shot, where the masts and towers do tend to merge together on the horizon, other than the Eureka Tower of course which tends to dwarf everything else. I’ve taken a little Artistic License with my title, but from this position, these spires do all belong to St. Kilda.
In this shot I wasn’t particularly worried about the water or even the boats, in fact I kind of liked the secondary pier providing access to the boats, the way it blocked them out.
I just wanted to get the masts with the buildings in the background. I have since checked. These buildings are roughly 6 kilometers away. When I took this shot it was sunny; I would love to try this one, from this position at various times, i.e. blue hour, sunrise, with fog etc. but I will leave that for someone else. In the workshop I have another shot, taken at 26 mm, just before I took this shot. This will provide a little bit different perspective.
Workflow for this shot was as follows:
Shot was taken in Raw, with a jpeg for reference (ISO 400 135 mm @f/11, 1/250)
NEF file adjusted for exposure, shadow and vignetting
Levels – not used
Adjusted curves – s-curve to apply contrast
Added an overlay layer and dodged and burned with 5-10% opacity black and white brush
Saturation – +20 to master
Saved as a tiff
Cropped, resized, reduced noise on sky selection, added a layer, deselected, sharpened with USM, modified sharpening with a layer mask (30-80% opacity black brush), framed and saved as a jpeg |
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