Thanks for the comment. Very little to tell about how it was done from a learning prospective I'm afraid. I was zooming along in my boat en route to France last Friday when I noticed the sun was obscured by haze and the line to the sun was dotted with twinkling reflections of the star. I shot this one handed while driving the boat at 30 knotts while trying to keep a lookout for obsticles! l used F20 to keep the reflections sharp and iso200 to keep the shutter speed high to combat the excessive movement (probably unnecessary given how high the shutter speed turned out).
The original was RAW and had dark sea, light sky and beautiful shiny sharp ripples and reflections, but it also had an angled horizon and sensor dust. I fixed these in iPhoto which saved the result as TIFF. I then loaded the tiff into graphic-converter to resize for the challenge but due to a difference in interpreting the tiff data between iphoto and graphic-converter, it loaded nearly all the image data into the blue channel. I decided I liked the effect and it fitted both the found and the abstract theme better that way! In order to understand what had happened, I took the original in RGB mode and played with the channels until I had repeated the effect.
I think a crop of the bottom third would be nice. - Naj
