Sunset in Vlissingen - a photo on Flickriver

            After a site visit to the offshore Wind farm Borssele 1 and 2 
- which can be just seen at the horizon - , currently being built by the Danish company Ørsted, we were heading inbound during the sunset hour. Most of the work traffic to and from the wind farm is serviced with CTV’s. Those crew transfer vessels are specialized in the transport of offshore support personnel and sometimes small deck cargo.  They are usually rather lightweight aluminium catamarans with transit speeds ranging between 15-25kn although some vessels have a top speed of up to 30kn.

In this case the WINDCAT 101 (MMSI: 235086213), used by by Ørsted, was sailing at roughly 25 to 26 knots. And given sea state 4, this was not an ideal platform to steadily capture the marvellous sunlight with which Vlissingen was flooded with during sunset. So, I braced myself against one of the hatches of the windcat and shot, while using the image stabilization on the Fujifilm 55-200mm, with the highest possible shutter speed. It resulted in a 99,45 percent tack sharp image. 

Technical stuff
This shot was taken with a Fujifilm X-E3 using the 55-200mm. It was shot at 100ISO, f4,5, -1 1/3, 1/1600 and at 67mm.
Post-production was done with the help of Lightroom. It included: cropping, colour toning enhancing the sunset feel a little, adding some sun patches on the boulevard and water in the foreground and using the clarity tool for a more crisp image. Finally, I added some copyright signs (in PS, as it is still not possible to position a watermark anywhere you want like in LR – by simply adding text). The copyright signs are, alas, there to stay due to the fact that my photos were frequently copied. So, don't bother commenting on that.  

   

Taken in: Holland / Provincie Zeeland / Flushing (show map)

Taken on: October 10, 2020

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