Composite of three images, one of my daughter walking on a beach, another the Seattle's skyline made from the ferry, the third a landscape in central WA.
The main image (walking on beach), I processed it by itself, adjusted colours, darkened throughout, adjusted brightness/contrast, adjusted colours some more.
Then I added skyline (sky and clouds) from the landscape with bridge to the water/sand area, distorted and blended mainly for colour.
Then I added in the skyline, moved to the right place, blended in layers and erased portions to blend in with the sky, flattened.
Used a 50% grey layer to dodge/burn.
Resized, sharpened, saved for web.
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Oh Ursula!! (I think I say that alot, don't I. . sorry). . .but your photography just blows me away. This is truly phenomenal. I can't believe this isn't on the front page with a ribbon under it!!! Jeeeeez. You got robbed. This is one of the coolest photos I've ever seen!
I'd never have pegged this as yours, Ursula. It's very well done, and I really appreciate the detailed notes on how you organized it. But you mention putting in the skyline in two different steps, so I am wondering if it's a typo in step 2?
Congrats on top-20!
No, it's not a typo, but it's a poorly explained process. I added 2 skylines, one (the second) is the Seattle skyline, with the buildings and all that. The other (the first) is a skyline sans buildings, just sky and clouds, that I overlated on the sand to intensify the meagre reflection there. It probably should have been called something other than "skyline", more like, "added clouds".
I'd never have pegged this as yours, Ursula. It's very well done, and I really appreciate the detailed notes on how you organized it. But you mention putting in the skyline in two different steps, so I am wondering if it's a typo in step 2?
I assume the city skyline is added afterwards and in that case I would have placed it up in the upper right corner and not the left, that just would have given this photo better balance in the composition.
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