Orca Pod Hunting at Twilight

Editing notesThe photo was constructed using layers. The canvas was an Orca seascape. Three additional Orca photos were added as masked layers, each taken at approximately the same distance to shoreline with a telephoto Lens, as the Orca's were a distance from the boat. The layers were merged into a stamp layer that was post processed using Dynamic Contrast, Match Color with a depth Mask and a LUTs using a Luminosity Mask. A Tonal Contrast was applied to the front Orca's using Super Select AI. A curve filter was added to remove any saturated black. Minor Develop Tone settings were then applied to enhance the depth and the original sky. The lighting was kept as shot.

• ILCE-7RM4A
• ƒ/16
• 70mm
• ISO 100
• 1/50 sec