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Making Waves
Making Waves
My son, Basil, playing in the pond inside the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Played around in Photoshop CS5 roughly doing the following actions:
1. Levels, Curves, and Shadows adjustments.
2. Used the transform function's perspective and distort tools.
3. Lots of cloning on the sky and upper-to-middle right side of the frame.
4. Then used the "Diffuse" filter available in PS filters in the 'Stylize" menu.
5. For making Tsunami's in the pool I then applied the Liquify Filter's Forward Warp Tool.
6. Finally put in the watermark, resized the image and sharpened in Photoshop.

It took about 20 minutes of DD work in all;)

The original image is in the discussion thread below.

Usman M. Bajwa

 
  Original SOOC capture - only resized
Original SOOC capture - only resized

Usman M. Bajwa

 
 
 
- Usman M. Bajwa

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SOOC image above using the Tokina 11-16mm UWA lens.


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January 16, 2013

 

Colette M. Metcalf
  Beautiful work and image!!!


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January 17, 2013

 

Antonio Amen
  Very well done


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January 17, 2013

 

Joy Rector
  well done


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January 17, 2013

 
- Nikki McDonald

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  You had great bones to work with, Usman. I love the strong diagonal lines and the triangles that make up the composition. Your son is perfectly positioned, tool


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January 17, 2013

 
- Carol Quina

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  Nice work! Love the "fluidity" of this!


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January 17, 2013

 
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