The tide has made getting to the dock a little harder. A couple of sea gulls reconnoiter the situation. Perhaps, the shallow water between the pier and the land gives them a good feeding ground. The scene is a couple months back in St. Bernard Parish at Bayou Bienvenue -- just down river from New Orleans.I had a little digital darkroom fun with this one (again, click on the image to enlarge it to get the full effect) --first I auto white balanced the shot which made it brighter. I then used the auto color enhance in Gimp to give the colors more zip.
Lastly I ran it through the Cartoon2 filter I downloaded into Gimp's Script-Fu/photo effects scripts. The Cartoon2 filter gives you two sliders -- smoothness ( I toned this way down to a 2) and colors (I bumped this way up to 24).
Before I did all that I cropped the original image way down to get it to the focus of the shot. Here's the original image:
-- steve buser
5 comments:
Steve ~~~ I think you're having just a little bit too much fun here..... Glad you are playing around with these photos... what fun to see what you can do with a little imagination and technology~!!!
Very Good!!
Hi Steve! Just a speedy visit to say hello! I’ve been busy the whole last week and will be out in the next, so this is far less than your blog deserves… ;(( But I promise I’ll come back with more time after June 10th, at least…
Anyhow, loved to see the digital experiences...
Meanwhile, to avoid leaving you empty hands, I published a last post on Marrakesh 2006 at Blogtrotter. ;))
Enjoy!
Very beautiful photo!!
Love what you did with this photo. You really made it pop and I found it much more interesting. Its always fun to see what people do with their posts.
Very cool. Thanks for letting us know what you did.
I need to get that program now that I have the MAC.
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