Looking eastward over the Orinda valley from Grizzly Peak, with Mount Diablo on the horizon, very late afternoon sun.
-Handheld, manual mode
-Graduated ND filter
FL 61.2mm (35mm EQ)
-Channel Mixer in monochrome mode to make B&W
-Various RGB Curves through masks
-Gaussian Blur to smooth out sky
-Resize
Crop a little from bottom
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 276KB
File: MtD-BW_IMG_5128-DPC
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