steps at the end of the beach

Whilst looking for other things I came across this old beach picture from a Thailand trip a year ago. I'm not sure where it was shot,
perhaps its same The Beach movie location again!
At night Martine and I would walk barefoot home from town, holding our sandals in the warm surf, and see large rats feasting on the huge fallen jaca tree fruits..

As we were so unlucky with the end of season weather, we flew north to Chiang Mia after just a few days, where it was much drier.
The photo shows a moody afternoon sun, just before yet another rain!

I used Flypaper textures to bring out the green tones under the trees, and lighten those brooding shadows.

Antique Liaisons Soft Light @ 41% (blurred)
Raw Linen Overlay @ 41% (blurred)
Apple Blush Hard Light @ 32%

Final tweaks with curves when merged!

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the scary bit

On rediscovering my Thailand vacation pictures from last year,
I still find the odd thing to process.
This was shot in Portrait format, on a fast speedboat launch in poor early morning light, thus unfortunately most shots from this batch suffer from a little camera shake and were abandoned.
The rocks were very yellow, so to get around this, I simply added a final B/W base image layer to finish off the image.
It gives a cool modern look to the finished imagery.
I'm sure that if the James Bond franchise were to re-visit their famous nearby Kho Phi Phi islands used in 'The Man with the Golden Gun',
would they be using this kind of desaturated filming, perhaps with a green filter?

Apple Blush - Soft Light @ 100%
Dangerous Liaisons - Multiply @ 30%
Base Image - Soft Light @ 31%
Base Image (totally desaturated) - Normal @ 45%

If you look closely at the flickr version you'll see I removed a boat!

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