Storm Eric Giant at Newhaven - a photo on Flickriver

This shot makes me think of some giant creature rising out of the depths to take a bite out of the lighthouse. Not too sure which creature though.

The Met Office in the UK has started to give names to especially bad storms and last Saturday 9th February it was the tail end of Storm Eric. In the North Atlantic storms are nothing near a Hurricane but strong enough with gusts of 60mph to bring down trees. The last time I took pictures at Newhaven was Storm Brian in October 2017. Conditions then were far more severe with twice the sustained wind speed. For Storm Eric the main track of the storm was across the north rather than the south as it was in 2017. The main part of the storm was on the previous day but then it was far too dull for decent images and winds were forecast to remain strong Saturday morning when it was far brighter.

The location at Newhaven on the South Coast also had the advantage of a wide and high shingle beach providing a safe location to take pictures even in a fierce storm. The wall is a breakwater for the harbor and with a serious storm massive waves come in from the SW and hit the breakwater also creating a lot of backwash and turbulence. For this shot I had moved from a hill to the closer shingle bank so the waterproof cover for the camera was in place to deal with salt spray. I was also using an old camera with an intermittent fault.. During the 3 hours I was there I took 640 images.

The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Minolta 75-300mm zoom at 140mm. The image was taken handheld with no chance of a steady tripod in those conditions. The image was processed first in Capture One Raw Editor. Then it was Topaz Denoise followed by Topaz Clarity and Topaz Adjust for more detail. Next I added a brightness adjustment layer for an increase in brightness in the light in the lighthouse to improve that additional focal point using a layer mask. Mono conversion was with Nik Efex Silver.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Newhaven (show map)

Taken on: February 9, 2019

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Camera: Sony DSLR-A700, f/8.0, 1/3200 sec, 140mm (=210mm), ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSLR-A700
Lens:	140 mm f/5.6
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	1/3200 sec
Focal Length:	140mm (35mm equivalent: 210mm)
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
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