Clicked at Kompong Phluk, Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia.
Kompong Phluk is a ‘floating’ village built on stilts, and tourists can pay to be taken around on a boat ride through the place. I was not a huge fan of the experience; the village certainly does not seem to reap any benefits of the money paid by visitors. Anyway, here is a photograph of a local woman rowing about going about her chores nonchalantly. 🙂
This picture was kinda blurred, but I didn’t want to throw it away — I really love the half-turned torso of the subject. To make the photograph usable, I decided to make the background monochrome and apply a selective blur, and highlight the woman and her boat in the foreground. However, the varied blurriness required of the elements made my first attempt look weird and unnatural. So I started working with the boat and the woman separately. Frankly, I’ve forgotten the myriad effects I played around with. I remember going crazy with the Colors tool for the boat, and using edge detection and softening and various blend modes and transparencies for the layers. The final changes I made were smudging, shading and healing the subject to make her blend in with the background.
For SL-Week: Women. Happy Women’s Day!
I love it!! 😀 ❤
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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A fascinating place.
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I agree — it was the first time I’d heard of such houses!
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If you have not gone. You really should. Here is a couple of images I published after going there. https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/repairing/ and https://allentimphotos2.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/5372/
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Wonderful images.I clicked the picture in this post at the same village, of course! 🙂
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Thank you for looking
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Love the effects 🙂
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Phew, glad that all that work paid off! 🙂
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🙂
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Very Nice shot
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Thank you for the opportunity to make this photo work, Sylvain! 🙂
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I love it too! I like the blur! it gives it a timeless feel!
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Timeless — I like it! 🙂 I suppose it does give it that feel…
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