Here is the before and after of my portrait:
BEFORE
AFTER
I took this photograph at Fort Canning Park, which is located in the CBD. I liked that you could still see the skyscrapers of the CBD from the park, and I was interested in capturing the juxtaposition between the buildings and the foliage, and how nature is very intentionally curated to exist next to architecture in Singapore.
It was really bright in the afternoon when I took this photo so I had my ISO set to 200, shutter speed to 1/250 and my aperture to f/13 to capture the whole landscape in focus.
When it came to editing the photo, I wanted to emulate the look and feel of old postcard photos, in which the shadows of the image are often rendered redder or even purplish in some cases, and the blues are quite pronounced and lean toward cyan. I masked out the sky so I could edit the colour of it more directly, whereas for the trees I focused on pushing the reds and magentas in the shadows. (Colours are more saturated and accurate in the photoshop file as the image above is compressed for OSS!)
Here are my layers:
