Pigeon Rocks #2

October 24th, 2010

A few weeks ago, I posted a shot of the Pigeon Rocks in front of Beirut’s corniche, promising at the time that I will post some more from the same location. The shot below is taken from a different vantage point, showing the Pigeon Rocks as well as the corniche and the buildings overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

It’s a long exposure photo to allow the sea to flatten. I also used a little trick in Photoshop which I haven’t used in a while. I wanted to get the sky to look a bit bluer so I duplicated the original photograph and changed the blend mode of that layer to Multiply. Most of the times this will get the sky to look darker and you can control that darkness by adjusting the transparency level of that layer.

Shot with NIKON D300S | 12mm | ƒ/14

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Lebanon, Middle East

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  • http://www.danishsuburb.dk Claus Petersen

    Nice work on the contrasts, it really adds a lot of life to this shot!

  • http://www.dailytravelphotos.com Pius

    You can save yourself a lot of disk space by using just any adjustment layer instead of copying the image layer itself. A duplicated image layer effectively doubles your saved PSD file size.

    For example, just pick the levels adjustment layer and change its blend mode to multiply. You add a few measly KB to the saved file size.

  • http://www.momentaryawe.com Catalin

    Claus, thanks!

    Pius, I’ve never tried just with an adjustment layer. I’ll give it a go and see how it turns out. Thanks!

  • http://eh10.org/blog Tom

    So much to like about this one. Have been using a lot of lens correction recently has you have here, and it really makes a nice difference, and not necessarily one you’d pick up in post on your own. Some lovely detail brought back in this too.

  • http://www.momentaryawe.com Catalin

    Tom, thanks for that. You really do need sometimes the lens correction as certain scenes (like the one above) get distorted quite a bit.

  • Edwina

    Great picture of contrasts, high tech feel and geometric shapes of city scape minimalized against the huge (ice age?) worn rocks. I think the rocks won. Nice editing. The water effects around the big rock makes it look like it is on the move!

  • http://www.momentaryawe.com/blog Catalin

    Edwina, thanks!