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Pic of the Day #606

• written by Kenneth

Here’s one more shot from Finn Slough, and old boat that I can only assume has not been seaworthy in quite some time. Then again, I don’t know boats, so perhaps the one in this picture is still capable of holding its own on the water.

But I suspect not.

Where was this taken?

The more I play with Lightroom 2, the more I get addicted to the diffusion effect that comes with setting the Clarity to a negative value. It just looks good on so many images (not on all, to be fair).

Edit-wise, in addition to the above-mentioned Clarity adjustments, I applied the Vivid preset to bring out many of the colours in this image. However, because of some particularly harsh chromatic aberrations, I had to desaturate the magenta and purple hues quite heavily. Other hues — notably the blues and greens — saw their saturation boosted somewhat.

I also had to do quite a lot of highlight reduction on the sky, but this worked out (more or less), and some cloud detail was recovered from what had otherwise been a washed-out area of the image. A bit of sharpening rounded things out, resulting in the image that you see here, O Reader.

There’s a certain…”not entirely real” quality about the scene.

~ by Kenneth on May 17, 2008.

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