On the promenade along the seafront at Salou in Spain there is a monument to Jaume I – in English, James of Aragon or James the Conqueror – whose fleet departed from this part of the country in the thirteenth century to invade and conquer the Balearic Islands and create the Kingdom of Mallorca. We found Salou to be a great base for exploring nearby Tarragona, Reus, and Barcelona during our week’s holiday in Spain in 2012.
The reprocessing of this photo started with the new enhancement feature in Camera RAW to double the image resolution and provide for more space to work with cropping. The crop was made to pull that diagonal into the bottom left corner because I do like to compose lines into the corners of photos if I can.
Vibrancy, contrast, and slight detail enhancement was added then this result was overlaid over the original image twice, once in Soft Light and once in Lighten, both with under half-opacity. This gave the basic colours a punch and brought out more from the shaded stone of the obelisk and the darker parts of the horse element of the monument.