Dún Briste sea stack, Downpatrick Head, Ireland
photo by Frederick Bancale
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbancale/
original image - https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47932740067_86e9ca0592_k.jpg
Another subject that I had trouble finding good photos of. Plenty of portraits, but the landscapes were lacking. I like the atmosphere of this one. The colors are right at the edge of being too sugary, still they are alright. However, this is a prime example of a photographer who doesn't know what the hell he's doing in Photoshop, and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near it. For some reason, he didn't like something on this wonderful sea stack. A flock of seagulls? A bunch of suicidal tourists? That particular rock over there? I don't know, but whatever it was, he sure cloned the hell out of it. It’s horrible. Repeating patterns everywhere.
He also didn't like something about that cape in the background - perhaps its very regular layers? So he cloned that out too, using the sea stack as the source. The result was... a mess.
So, I restored all that. I lifted the stack and the cape off of another photo taken from the more-or-less same position, put that in, sorted out the colors and the contrast, and cleaned-up some weird blotches all over the sea, which I'm guessing were the result of indiscriminate dodging and burning. And there was a vignette there, of course. Luckily, it wasn't too bad. Out it went.
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