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I used levels mostly, the scene was very contrasty, had to pull the shadows up a lot. Did not sharpen. Applied gausian blur to the sky, as the noise removal was not effective enough. That is it, I think. Pavel
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The subject (the wave) looks to me cropped. I see also problems with exposure in this one. The shadows look like well defined black spots. That might be because of the use of levels. Curves or lab color are a bit more specific, hightlight/shadows filter also can do better job I think.
I hardly ever remove noise with blur gausian because it looks a bit fake. The sky actually has to have a bit of noise. If you want to use this kind of technique to remove noise I'd recommend to fade the blur filter by 50% or to add the blur filter in another layer and then reduce opacity so then you can control the amount of noise to be seen.
Sorry if I don't comment in all your pictures in this critique forum, but sometimes I have problems with my monitor specially early in the mornings. There is a lot of light in my room and it doesn't let me see well.
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