The Marblehead Peninsula juts out from northern Ohio into Lake Erie. Kelley's Island is about two miles north of the end of the peninsula. The main photo for this image was taken on the return leg of my first ferry ride to the island a little over nine years ago. Every trip since has been with a bicycle and no photo gear. The lighthouse is from a different photo taken on the peninsula. It would've been far to the right of the line of sight of the sailboat photo.
Nikon D1, ISO 200, f/7.1, 1/50 sec, zoom lens at 300mm
post-processing
- Adobe Camera Raw -- Clarity and some Saturation and Luminance tweaking
- To raise the horizon, the canvas was extended on the bottom and cropped (I think -- have been working on this off and on for at least a couple weeks) at the top.
- Flypaper Textures -- a starting point for replacement of the cloudless blue sky in the photo
- The sailboat and its wake were moved down and to the left.
- Topaz Simplify -- Watercolor II preset
- dark blue gradient diminishing from the top of the image to the horizon
- Nik Color Efex -- Tonal Contrast
- Photo Filter adjustment layer -- warming to tone down the blues
- Fractalius -- three B&W layers based on the old Sketch preset, Multiply blend mode. One preset was applied at different opacities above and below the horizon. The other was applied uniformly but mostly affected the water and boat.
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- two B&W layers of Stylize Line Art, one at Divide blend mode in the light part of the sky above the horizon; the other everywhere else at Multiply blend mode
- Nik Color Efex -- two layers based on the same stamped layers; one with Sunlight and Tonal Contrast, the other with Tonal Contrast
- The lighthouse was minimally processed, reduced substantially in size, trees were masked off, it was flipped horizontally (to put the small remaining tree on its right), and an Alien Skin Snap Art Stylize Line Art B&W layer was applied at Multiply blend mode to accentuate the major details.
