An edited photograph of the Jade Belt Bridge (Yudai) on Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace, Beijing, China, originally taken during our three days pre-cruise for our honeymoon back in 2008.
You can read about our visit to the Summer Palace and compare this to the original photograph here: Summer Palace, Beijing.
The original photo was taken in horrible lighting conditions. There was low, hazy cloud over Beijing at the time and the time of day was whiting out most pictures. The range of the resulting shot was not good so that has been widened to darken the colours and increase the contrast, then the saturation has been pushed up a long way to get some colour into the initial pale, bright photo. Sharpening was added for texture but the sky was still a bit of a blank spot above the main focal point so I replaced it with one of Photoshop’s default ones then reduced the opacity of it to look less jarring and warmed up the overall tone of the resulting image to accentuate the pleasing evening feel.