CC please (and some help!) for a W.I.P.

Hi all,
I'm working on this image at the moment. I'm pretty happy how it's going but I can't seem to shift the halo I'm getting around the vertical post, any tips eagerly accepted! Also any other CC as always welcomed. Thanks :)

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Ian McCann December 10, 2015 [Edited]

Hi paul, That is nice, I like it.

Is the halo you mention just below the horizon? If so I suspect it is an optical effect perhaps partly caused in lens but also somethng to do with our eyes playing abit of a trick on us. Making us see the blue as lighter because the blue is so close to a very high contrast edge. I had a very similar, but oposite, effect in a photo I took, also by the sea, earlier this year, of a silhouetted cyclist against a clear bue sky. I shot on a Phase One with one of the Schneider prime lenses, so very high quality kit in deed. I had it on demo loan. There is a dark shadow around the cyclist in my photo which was entirely a photographic effect. Have a look.

In your case I would have thought it would be easy to clone over the blue to ensure that the camera lens combo's effect has been eliminated, after masking the pole.

Paul Watt December 10, 2015 Ian McCann

Thanks Ian. I really like your photo and yeah, I see what you mean. I've managed to get it a little better by using a radial filter (with an inverted mask) and tweaking the contrast. I think I'm going to have to do a little cloning, I think any more tweaking is just going to have diminishing returns. I doubt now that anyone else but me would notice it, but you know what us photographers are like.......

Anonymous December 10, 2015

I don't know much about about the editing, but I think it's turning out great!

Paul Watt December 10, 2015 Anonymous

Thanks Jayden :) It's taking me longer to learn the editing than anything else!

Paul Watt December 10, 2015 [Edited]

I think I'm happy with this now: https://fstoppers.com/photo/103201

Michael Lacy December 10, 2015

Hi Paul,
Nice image...pretty minor halo effect on my monitor. I've had this show up on images when I reduce the lumanance on the blue channel in LR to far. Not sure if that is what is going on here. Have you attempted a "heal" repair along the pole edge to see if it would solve the issue?
Mike

Paul Watt December 10, 2015 Michael Lacy [Edited]

Thanks Mike. This is the final image now I think, I played a little with blue channel (Head slap moment there for me! cheers!) and I think I can put this one to bed now! https://fstoppers.com/photo/103201

Michael Marshall December 10, 2015

I think a low opacity clone action would gently fill the halo.

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CC please (and some help!) for a W.I.P.