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Monday, 26 October 2026 - dewarp - 10-26-2026
The 4th image in my collection is titled "Kalk Bay Depiction".
Kalk Bay is a small village near here that has a fishing harbour. We occasionally have camera club outings there, and this edit came out of the most recent one.
This image took a lot more effort than might appear at first sight. First of all, the boat was to the right of the centre line, which didn't suit my envisaged composition. The job of masking it out was pretty difficult, due mainly to lots of clutter behind the handrails. Next the boat and its reflection were cut out of the scene, and a new boat-free background image was constructed. I then used the Fractalius filter on the background, and blended it in to create the interesting effects seen on the buildings. The Fractalius bits were only included above the walkway. I pasted the boat/reflection back into the scene, and then used the Topaz Simplify filter on the water/reflections. Finally, things were cleaned up a bit using local hand cloning.