Winter in the Marina

Winter in the Marina, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

An attempt to capture the 'golden hour' at the marina this afternoon while I was cleaning my boat 'Henry'. I shot this pair of Freeman 26's (and the bathing platform of a Norman 266) at about 4.30, just as the sun was disappearing. The light levels were too low in the foreground for Photomatix to process the RAW file, so I gave up and used CS2 to convert it. I pulled the curve around a bit to make the most of the way the light strikes across the image and altered the saturation and white balance.
The result is just about what I was aiming for. To be honest, its not exactly a sensational image, but it has boats in it, and taking it was more fun than washing a cruiser in an Arctic gale with cold water.