Slipping into the ocean - Seascape

[AdamK]

No..regard your posted image's luminance as 1.00. After auto exposure correction the resulting picture equates to an additional adjustment of + 0.90... i.e your jpeg opened in an editor then the midpoint raised by 0.90. My manual, 'by eye' adjustment regarded it as 'better'/'optimal' at 1.80. An automated adjustment puts it at 1.90. Your '1.00' looks too dark compared to a lightenend version which reveals lots of detail obscured in your edit.

Got an idea:

How does that look and is that correct how you would do it? :mrgreen: