The meeting place was supposed to be at a restaurant that (unknown to me) is named the same name as another restaurant across the street, but that fiasco was played out later. As I headed down the busy street, I caught a glimpse of this harbor sunset, and in another 300′, I swung the car around and headed back to the harbor. The harbor reflections were stunning, with the foreground lit up, then going to black. I recalled from my lessons in Maine with Moose, a lot of pointers on these sea shots and made my way around the dock to find my subject.
The problem was that the sun, was a massive ball of orange, and no amount of filtering was going to stop down the light, so I framed up the shot with the sun off to the left, out of the frame. I was thinking starburst could be a possibility because I was stopped down at F/22 with my 105mm f/2.8, but I was not convinced that it could be done using only the far edge of the lens.
The harbor was cluttered with ‘stuff’ that took away from the image, so they were dispersed in the digital darkroom, I also added some Glamor glow from NIK, and brushed in some tonal contrast in the foreground to sharpen the image to lead your eye into the sail boat mast and boat. Some modest amount of sharpening was added to the back black tree line to keep the black just a bit cleaner.
I just spoke with a Hingham native about the Image, she loved the colors and to my surprise, she didn’t recognize it as Her Haabor…and immediately hit the download file button……geeze .
