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Despite first impressions, there are very few effects on this image actually, although admittedly it does look like it has had. I used spot metering took a reading from the highlights in the middle and the low lights, and took a shutter speed in-between with a bias towards the lows (easier to work with an under exposed than over exposed image). The key component (and best investment so far) was a cir-polarizing filter, the filter holds down the over the top high lights, and also brings less light into the camera allowing longer exposures which are a must with the water really. The only Photoshop treatment was to convert it to B&W, I used a channel mixer mask layer, (with monochrome selected) lots of red to bring up the contrast and a balance of green and blue to bring up the mid and high tones. (a tip is to try and get the overall percentage mix to 100% with the biggest majority being red, but experimentation is the key). I then used the lasso tool to make a selection of the stones, with a feather of 150px and adjusted the curves to bring out the mid-tone details and again some selective level adjustments to the water to make it a little less dark bringing up the highlight / reflections. Apart from that, this is a genuine exposure (honest) ;).