Another Image Rescued by Lightroom 4

Here's another image from early 2011 which never quite grabbed me until I went back to the folder yesterday and applied some quick Lightroom 4 settings to it.  

I can't wait to bring more folders into Lightroom 4, but it's bogging down pretty badly on my new Windows laptop running Windows 8.  I may have to downgrade to Windows 7 or build a desktop with far more than the current 8GB RAM (unfortunately the laptop came maxed out in RAM and can't expand).

Edits: For something interesting, take a look at this time-lapse video capturing about an hour of the exact same sunset event from a different angle: https://vimeo.com/18626912 and stop it right when it first reaches 17 seconds.  There are actually 30 photos used to make every second of video so you'll probably stop on a different one, but I think I happened to find the same moment and splash… blue sky, orange sun and sunlight, blue sky light illuminating waves and white foam in the shade.  What I find really interesting is that like in the image above, the splash has a mixture of direct faint orange light from the last bit of the sun, and the blue light from the sky, and the result is a more pink-magenta shade of orange.

This is a fairly unique case where nearly all of the sun's evolving influence is shooting through the narrow cave.  A previous splash I caught just two photos earlier is much more orange.  It's amazing how lighting from all different directions can affect parts of an image, and for how short I time some of these effects can be!

Here's a quick "before vs. after" edit comparison as well:
http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2013/01/13/pfeiffer-beach-sunset/
Digital cameras are simply too primitive to produce reasonable results in difficult lighting situations… good thing we have post-processing software to restore realism!

Here’s a bigger copy, and print purchase option: http://jeffsullivan.smugmug.com/Landscapes/California-Coast/i-PLnNxFD/0/XL/_MG_3635-XL.jpg

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