Port Visit

Very Nice

To my eye, this is a terrific composition. But the thing that I admire the most is ability to think high contrast in place like Venice! Kudos...

nice artwork, composition

I am thinking " how the ....did he do this...Ive done some crazy things, but this is a puzzle..

The answer is quite simple ... I photochopped the heck out of it. This is a scan of an old photo. Whether because of its age or it was simply a poor print, the original scan had some pretty funky color things going on. I like the composition and the various competing elements (warship and quaint lights, people strolling down the boardwalk, the snow) ...so I was trying to salvage it with my meager photoshop skills. Things weren't going as well as I wanted, so out of frustration and boredom I started playing with the contrast controls. Next thing you know, I've got this image, which emphasized what I liked most about it.