Ocean and Sky


Still one of my first tries in nightly long-time exposure and with long-time I mean a couple of minutes. This brings new challenges, namely fighting against noise. I even have it at 100 ISO with my 20D and every time I tune the contrast a little I have to run a noise reduction filter to keep the image smooth. This results in loss of detail. I'm using layer masks to bring details back wherever they contribute to the image. For example the texture of the moving clouds.