This is a rework of a photograph that was taken on a sea day aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship back in 2008. Regular readers of this site will know that this was on our honeymoon, and was the first cruise we’d ever taken so it helped to cement our love of this ship, Princess Cruises, and cruising in general that has continued to this day and helps with the generation of most of the content on this site.
This was towards the end of that fantastic cruise experience, sailing between Vietnam and Singapore, and the day had been bright, hot, and humid right up until this huge storm cloud swept in over the sea and proceeded to throw it down. The rain didn’t last long, but it was heavy enough to send everyone scampering for cover.
A little bit of work on the shadows and highlights was applied to this photograph, as well as some use of increased texture and clarity to bring out some of the detail. The primary bit of rework on this picture of a storm at sea, though, was to see how well the new “AI” (I hate that deliberately misleading term with a passion) Denoise function in Camera RAW worked since the original photo was taken on my first DSLR camera and there was a lot of colour noise in the shot as the light of the day had suddenly vanished under the thick cloud. I have to say, a pretty good job actually. I wouldn’t want to use it on face details, but for something like this then it did a good job at cleaning up without obliterating or obviously fabricating elements.