This week we had another meeting of the eCircle processing group of which I am a member. For this meeting we used a photograph provided by ‘Andrew’ (he has given me permission to use his photo in this post but it is still his copyright). Andrew provided a scene of some small yachts moored in a calm location
Here I will show the stages I went through to get the final image. First, I show the unprocessed RAW image:
In western counties we tend to read photographs as we read from left to right. Those countries where right to left writing is the norm tend to read photographs in that way. So I flipped the image left to right. As it happens I wasn’t the only one to do this!
At this point I thought I had a fair interpretation of the photo but thought I could go further so I then tried applying some of the ‘old photo’ effects I described last month:
In the discussions, it was felt that the cropping was too tight to the left and right and that the texture was too large and too strong. Afterwards I tried a quick edit and came up with this:
If I was to start from scratch I could have produced a better image but it shows that the cropping was too tight as originally done, and that I need a finer stone texture layer.
Finally, for completion I show a screen shot of the Photoshop layers:
