Ha Long Bay traffic (postcard edited)

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    This image is not mine, the original image is from Kalabird

    Blogged in The Woodwork: Postprocessing in Outdoor Photography.

    I’m trying to demonstrate the power of editing landscape shots.

    The following actions were taken on this image:

    - straighten and cropped image
    - 16 bit Adobe RGB color space: to minimize some of posterization
    - Nik Color Efex Pro: gradudated blue filter: to turn cloudy sky blue
    - Nik Color Efex Pro: polarization filter: to remove some of the contrast lost due to haze
    - Kubota Artistic Tools: Daily Multi-vitamin: to add punch to the photograph

    I messed up the gradient near the mountains, but I was in a rush to demonstrate the idea behind overprocessing natural images, not the practice.

    Again, the original image is here.

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