Melbourne Skyline Circa 2007, from Rooftop Bar. There are some crazy distortions in this image and that is to be expected for such a wide format. I have tried to maintain vertical perspective and warp the horizontal. This is a huge image file on my computer, measuring 2.8 meters wide, made up from 9 portrait images. Was a fairly flat image, there are now three image layers with different blend modes in each, adjusted curves for better contrast in the midtones, put on a low and high overlay gradient, black and white conversion, adjusted levels and finished with a red/orange colour filter over the top to warm the highlights a bit. I usually dont write about how I choose to manipulate my images to get to the end product, but suffice to say most get around an hour of editing to boost it from a flat RAW image file into something quite different, and abstracted from the original.
