I feel that clouds make the sunset.
Today my friend mentioned an effect where the currents in the Pacific Ocean create a depression in the middle where all of the garbage collects. I looked it up and found out it is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I wonder if it will grow to the point where it will form an actual floating landmass capable of supporting significant weight. If not I would not be surprised if it became beneficial in the same way decommissioned scuttled ships act as artificial coral reefs. Or it may just be a huge blight on the seas.
Oddly enough the Santa Barbara Channel has enough natural seepage to be considered a huge disaster if the same amount came form a man-made source like a big tanker, in spite of this the channel has a huge biodiversity for the small area. To be fair the channel has had a long time to come to equilibrium while the trash island is relatively recent.
Now for the settings for my above tonemapped photo (single RAW, not HDR):
- Strength: 100
- Saturation: 50
- Luminosity: 0
- Light Smoothing: High
- Microcontrast: +6
Tone Settings:
- White Point: 0.808
- Black Point: 0.250
- Gamma: 1.01
Color Settings:
- Temperature: 0
- Saturation Highlights: +1
- Saturation Shadows: 0
Smoothing Settings:
- Micro-smoothing: 2
- Highlights Smoothing: 21
- Shadows Smoothing: 22
- Shadows Clipping: 0
Admittedly these settings are not markedly different then the other photo which actually surprised me once I looked at them.
Walk the Grass 