Floating village north

[Father Bob]

Here's another shot of houseboats, this time showing the mountains. For those who are curious, this is the Fraser River in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. A mile away is dense subdivisions.

Before



After



New sky, of course. Mountains and sky were low contrast so I went to red channel and boosted the contrast and then used the magic wand and touched it up with quick mask. Then just pasted in the new sky and tweaked it a tad.
Made a duplicate copy of the background layer and used overlay blending and 85% opacity to brighten things up. Did some curves, shadow/highlight and sharpened.
Comments and critiques appreciated.

PS: Shot at1/45 sec, f12 at 48mm focal length. -1/2 EV. ISO 100.

[windrider86]

certainly made a world of differnce. Really like the second one with the brither colors. I use PSP and am gonna have to figure out how to use the "channels" such as what you spoke about.