The original photo was taken as we approached the port of Portsmouth at the conclusion of our 2018 cruise on CMV’s Astoria and has been selected simply because of the news this week that CMV have gone into administration, one of the latest of many victims of the virus. This is passing Portsmouth Dockyard just after sunrise with the warships and auxiliaries of the Royal Navy reflecting a little of early morning sunshine off their hulls.
A minor change in crop from the original to centre the ship vertically a little more. A luminosity layer featuring a high contrast version of the original image was applied over the top at about two-thirds transparency; this brought out more details in the hulls of the naval vessels in particular. A new layer from the original with a muted, purple-hinted, acid wash was then overlaid with a linear burn at about 20% opaqueness to slightly modify the tones in the metals and water shadows as well as the sun in the sky and details in the darker clouds.