Version 2: Off the coast of St. Joseph Michigan, farther than my eye could see well, there was a sailboat at sunset. This was shot with my Tamron 150-600 lens at 840mm with a 1.4TC. I was using a tripod at the time, because I was shooting many shots at the sunset.

It was an ok image, and I was told I should print it. But I looked at it, and said, I certainly couldn't print it very big. I used the Topaz-Beta-Superfocus routine to correct the softness in the ship. This also introduced some new issues that I had to clone and heal. The words 'MJ' and I think it says 'ST Joseph' is hard to read. Topaz of course messed those up in the routine, I could have used the save text, but I just recopied from the original file those small-pieces. The other photo in the contest is actually the same ship (well double of the ship at 300mm.) I have other shots of the ship at 24mm, that shows how far it was away.

The first time I submitted this into the contest the boat was darker. I used Affinity Photo's Object select routine. Then I gave the boat more brightness. That wasn't good enough. Because the Object-select didn't just select the boat. But I then did a HDR merge of the original photo and the new one produced, basically merging the two layers. Affinity did the merge for me without much human interaction, but I still needed to play with the color and light dials a little more to get it to look as natural.

Canon M6 Mark II 840mm f/9 1/30 ISO 200