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King Tide at the Berkeley Municipal Pier
King Tide at the Berkeley Municipal Pier
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Challenge: In the Style of Peter Lik (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Dec 21, 2014
Aperture: 8.00
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/318
Date Uploaded: Dec 18, 2014

 "King tides" are the highest high tides of the year, occurring with a particular alignment and timing of the Sun-Moon-Earth relationship. There is a community effort to document these tides at various locations as a way to help predict the effect of rising sea levels. This particular set of images was taken about 14 minutes after the predicted time of the highest water. The deck of the pier is usually several feet above the waterline.

-tripod, timer, manual mode, manual focus
-FL 432mm (35mm EQ)
-Graduated ND filter
-Stitched from 4 frames with AutoStitch
-RGB Curve to sky-water through mask
-RGB Curve
-Non-destructive dodgle/burn
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 288KB

File: Pier_IMG_3548-51p25DPCusm.jpg

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 37
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Avg (commenters): 6.0000
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Views since voting: 531
Views during voting: 157
Votes: 74
Comments: 4
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/28/2014 11:58:54 PM
good use of leading line. the details and contrary colors are excellent. Lik used pano, not sure why the voters don't know that.

Message edited by author 2014-12-29 09:26:27.
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 12/28/2014 08:57:09 PM
Very nice light and clouds here. It's really hurting for lack of more vertical pixels, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/25/2014 08:26:58 PM
I like the way the pier seems to stretch almost all the way to Alcatraz.
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 12/22/2014 10:25:20 PM
Great perspective and colors but I think the pano hurts this rather than helps it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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