This is a composite of 3 images from a sequence of a humpback breaching. The basic image editing was done in Lightroom and then the images were transferred to Photoshop as layers where I combined them. I chose to only use these 3 photos from the sequence because they best show the flight and rotation of the whale. Adding the last 1 or 2 images show the splash but it interferes with the other images so I left them out.
This is my edited image. In Adobe Lightroom I adjusted the exposure, white balance, color, clarity, and sharpening, both globally and using the adjustment brush. The foreground still isn't in great focus, but this went from an image I would have deleted to a usable photo.
This is my image before editing in Lightroom. If I was unable to do major editing this image would be trash.
