Breaker, breaker

[Parsen66]

Spent the afternoon on Saturday on a very chilly and grey overcast day on Southend beach. My younger brother wanted to get into the ways of long exposure and asked if I could show him the ropes. A plan was set only to be scuppered when his camera decided not to work! So the shot below was set up by me, using my camera, tripod and filter and he had the honour of pressing the timer button It's what older brothers are for, right

Southend Seafront (Explored 19/10/2015) by Alan Reeve, on Flickr

[tesarver]

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Nicely done Alan.

Tom

[ST-EOS]

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Well done Alan, I bet your brothers pleased with the image he captured for you[emoji3]

[Parsen66]

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Nicely done Alan.

Tom

Thanks Tom

Well done Alan, I bet your brothers pleased with the image he captured for you[emoji3]

yes Pete, the boy done good

[Tigger]

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nice image Alan you've really got the hand of these LE shots, You'll have to start a thread with some tips and advice for us newbies

I would have taken another so I could have swapped the OOF boats you can see

[Tony Hawkins]

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Nicely done Alan. Only 9,283 views on Flickr - you must be disappointed with that I'm with Ian - can you clone out those OOF boats?

[paul linton]

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Nice shot Alan

Only 9,283 views on Flickr

I'm lucky to get 10.

Paul

[Parsen66]

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nice image Alan you've really got the hand of these LE shots, You'll have to start a thread with some tips and advice for us newbies

I would have taken another so I could have swapped the OOF boats you can see

Cheers mate. Yeh I know what you mean about the boats but it gives it a kinda of ghostly feel which I like, so there

Nicely done Alan. Only 9,283 views on Flickr - you must be disappointed with that I'm with Ian - can you clone out those OOF boats?

Tony, its rare that mine get more than 200, this is not the norm let me tell you

Nice shot Alan


I'm lucky to get 10.

Paul

I'll view yours to make it 11 Paul

[Tigger]

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Cheers mate. Yeh I know what you mean about the boats but it gives it a kinda of ghostly feel which I like, so there

now you're adding ghostly effects as well ...is there no stopping you ;)

[Parsen66]

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now you're adding ghostly effects as well ...is there no stopping you ;)

It's a constant battle to be the best. Sadly I rarely win lol

[John Liddle]

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It's a lovely image - but am I imagining the slight halos round the posts?

[Parsen66]

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It's a lovely image - but am I imagining the slight halos round the posts?

Thanks John. Yes, there is a slight dark halo around the posts, only showed after running through Efexpro. I've noticed this before and not sure why if I'm honest

[El Sid]

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Thanks John. Yes, there is a slight dark halo around the posts, only showed after running through Efexpro. I've noticed this before and not sure why if I'm honest

Alan, I found this in Another Place - it might be relevant to what you're getting...

What I should add to that is that, although I have Lightroom set to apply a fairly comprehensive preset to images on import (the actual preset varies automatically according ot the camera used), if I am going to process from within Lightroom in, say, any of the Nik or Topaz plug-ins such as Silver Efex Pro, I "kill" all of the import preset adjustments (including knocking sharpening right back to zero) before letting Lightroom shoot the file over to the Nik plug-in. The reason is that I have found that Adobe sharpening and Nik "structure enhancement" are not compatible and, if used one on top of the other, can lead to halos around contrasty edges. So, in those cases, I will sharpen in Lightroom after the Nik-processed file is imported back into Lightroom.

[Cyberman]

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Very nice image, for me the OOF boats add to the ghostly quality of the image.

[Parsen66]

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Alan, I found this in Another Place - it might be relevant to what you're getting...

Sid, thanks for that. I usually do sharpen before sending to Nik. I shall try it the other way and see if that improves things.