When the weather is something less than perfect, it's a good time to do some scouting. I'll be coming back to this spot when the foreground reeds are fully grown and hopefully when there's more sunshine. Unfortunately the ship probably won't be there.

As well as a bit of scouting I had the chance to try out my P7700 in exposure bracketing mode. The dynamic range of the scene is relatively low and some would say that bracketing is a waste of time in those circumstances. However, a file got from a three shot merge is noticeably easier to work with in PP and easier to get good results from.

If I'd had a top of the range full frame camera to take the shot with, the advantages of bracketing would have been much less obvious, but the simple fact is that a single exposure taken by the 1/1.7 sensor would have given me much more work and for poorer results when compared to the file got from the merge of bracketed shots. I'll probably still want to bracket when I go back with my D5200 and tripod.
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