wooden boat
Pretty much every summer, I saunter through an outdoor wooden boat show. There are always old Lymans and Chris Crafts, some on trailers and some tied up at the pier. Usually, there are a couple relatively new hand-built one-of-a-kinds. Most of the boats are in pristine condition, but last summer this small one was on display. Someone else who turned out to be an artist and I were attracted to its character. This image was made from two of many shots I took. Both were of the bow with the closer one being just of the area near the keel.
iPhone 5s, ISO 200, PureShot camera app, three-exposure HDR at 2 EV increments
processing highlights
- The bottom layer was the closer shot and is included in the entire image.
- A subsequent layer is from the more distant shot. It is on the left side top to bottom and extends as far as the rope (the "painter" in nautical parlance, I'm told). Darken blend mode, full opacity
- Because the Darken blend mode rendered the rope very nonuniform, the next layer was just the rope in Normal blend mode.
- Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Hard Light
- Photomorphis texture -- same one on two layers, Color and Hard Light
- To make the rope stand out from the boat, there's a layer with just a drop shadow done in Layer Styles. The Fill was set at zero so the rope's appearance wasn't affected, and the Opacity was set at 100 percent.
- Fractalius -- three black-on-white saved presets; Multiply, Divide, Multiply
- Simplify -- saved Edges preset, Multiply
- Snap Art -- saved Line Art preset, dark brown on white, Multiply
- Alien Skin Exposure -- vignette and change in coloration (modified Cinema preset)
If you consider the image to be in six segments, the bottom four can be seen in the bottom left one.
