Last sailboat of the season

The boats are all out of the slips now. This may be the last we see, and if not, close to it.

I dorked around with this on photshop because it had sensor spots and I didn't know when to quit. I'll be back to re place it. Don't know whether to put it under skies or water, decided water.

I will be gone to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for 5 days. Thinking of you Val--We love Hamilton!

With all the boat pix you take, Kate, we should have a boat catregory next year. Yours will probably be better, but the rest of us can have fun trying.

BLUE BOAT DETAIL

A nice clean blue boat waiting to be launched in the Scillies.

BLACK AND WHITE in the SCILLIES

I converted to b&w in PSCS3 under Image-Adjustments-Black&White. I like all the preset choices of different col filters in this method. But I needed the top half different to the bottom so I did it in layers and converted one half at a time. I wanted the blue in the sea to be bright but wanted the bearded guys jeans to be darker. That was the main reason I did it in two goes. Also used a layer mask with levels and brushed back in in places. I'm trying to get more used to using masks. I can't get them to only apply to the layer you are working on. They seem to apply to every layer beneath them. There must be a way surely of only applying the mask to the layer you are working on.

The colour image was my first attempt. I see that I must have cropped it differently. I didn't like the way that the horizon sloped although there was of course no way to actually take the picture without it sloping unless I had the foreground on the wonk. I put the pic in BP and a lot of people liked it for the storyline but it didn't get anywhere so I have just been having another look at it. I selected a rectangular shape around the quay and some of the boats and made a layer and transformed and warped it to try and bring it level. I also took the distant land in the background and did the same thing and brought it down somewhat. Had to fix it too with a bit of cloning. Also I changed the sky. I have saved it in colour also.