All at sea!

For the final pic, I took a look through my boat pictures. The one that I took of the underside of the hull was clearly the most interesting, as you rarely get to see boats from that angle. My idea was hopefully to trick the viewer into thinking the picture was taken at sea, rather than from just on the other side of a fence near a boatyard, several yards from the harbour.



In order to make it look like it was taken at sea, I first off had to adjust the colour balance. I wanted the picture to be more blue, basically, which would hopefully make it look like it was taken from a lifeboat or something else. It took several attempts, moving the balance bar a pixel or so at a time, but I think I managed it! (Seriously, sometimes there is literally no other way to get the picture you want than just changing it until it looks the way you planned.) Also, since the whole thing has been brightened, and the contrast increased, then I think I have done a good job of making this look like a sea-going vessel in mid-August, rather than a grounded yacht in early November. The contrast adjustment certainly improves the looks of the clouds, in my opinion.



All in all, I think that the main thing I have learned from this exercise, apart from getting a new camera that actually holds its memory cards properly, is that the best way to go about this kind of thing is to actually have a good photo to start with. Photoshop may well be an extremely useful tool, but it has its limitations.