Here's another shot from our recent trip out west. This one was taken on a very windy evening along the beach at Winchester Bay. We came across this large driftwood log that had all this wind-blown sand around it. When I saw the lines in the sand I knew I had to photograph the scene. Just as the sun was setting the clouds opened up right where the sun was, making that hole in the clouds incredibly bright. I used a 3-stop reverse-graduated neutral density filter to help balance the exposure between the bright sky and the dark foreground. Further editing in Lightroom 4 (using the graduated filter tool) allowed me to bring more detail out of the scene and balance the exposure even more. The in-camera exposure was much darker than the scene looked to our eyes. What you see here is the scene as I remember it. I hope you like it!
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