Frauenchiemsee pics

I grabbed a pic of this old couple from quite a distance away. They were sitting waiting for the ferry, not very contently it seems! Finishing was relatively complex. I desaturated the image, then made multiple layer copies in Photoshop and adjusted the contrast and brightness separately in each layer, so each element in the shot looked the way I wanted it. Then I painted layer masks by hand to bring everything together.

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Some more B&W from Frauenchiemsee...

This was harder to finish than it looks. Contrast set in four layers, composited, then lots of hand dodging and not a little spotting for retouching purposes.

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