Ocean Front

I'm on a little posting spree here. I just have so much stuff to share it's ridiculous. This was from my second night on the redwood coast. This was somewhere near lagoon creek and it just gave me a small sample of what a "rugged" coast feels like. This was the first time I ever attempted a seascape image and I wanted to get one to be happy with. Well, the light was really difficult this evening so I used three exposures plus a grad ND and that didn't even fix the problem. When I got home I blended the images together and used plenty of post processing techniques that worked quite well here (at least I think). The one thing I noticed with the images is that they were already glowing from having the water splash on the lens and wiping/smearing the spray aided in that effect. However, the way the exposures were I decided to add an orton layer to the overall image and just basically go crazy on it to blend back with the original image and then just painted over it to remove some of the strong cast on the distant sea stacks. I then cloned some of the lower sky over the blown highlights to keep them from appearing too blown out. Probably some of the most technical processing I have done on an image. Comments and critiques appreciated. Large version included.

Canon 7d
Canon 17-40mm @20mm
ISO 100
f16
.8 sec
CPL
2 stop grad ND
Tripod