At the Grain Terminal (2)
OK. I admit it. I had a lot of fun doing this one.
When I bicycle to work along Elliott Bay in Seattle, I go through Myrtle Edwards Park on the bike path and pass the grain terminal, where there is invariably a grain ship from some exotic place like China, Panama, Greece, or Malaysia sitting there filling up with wheat. These ships are huge, and the process is quite impressive.
Anyway. I finally got my act together and stuck my camera in my pannier last week before I left in the morning so that I could grab a couple of quick shots on my way to work. I got lucky and the morning sun was hitting one side of the ship as dark clouds moved in from the west over Elliott Bay.
So, I just got around to processing some of them yesterday evening, including this one — did a little HDR tonemapping work on it, made some color correction and applied noise reduction in Photoshop, and then used Photoshop to mimic the famous “Orton Effect.”
Finished up with a bit of sharpening in Photoshop and ended up with this shot, which I am really quite pleased with. The level of detail that emerged combined with the sort of glowing effect the Orton processing adds to the shot really makes for an impressive combination. Click the image, and on Flickr view the larger sizes to really see the effect.
