I went all in with this one. There where things I really liked about the photo – the monk, and the details in the pagoda – but there where also some things I didn’t like – it was flat and the sky was burnout – So I decided to play around with some texture and add another sky.

And ended up with what you see here.

Here’s a before and after, where you can see the RAW photo compared to the finished photo.

• Camera: NIKON D3S
• Shutter speed: 1/640s
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• ISO: 200
• Focal length: 24mm
• Taken: 13 July, 2012
• Location:

Monk & pagoda by Bo47 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

2012 Asia Before and After Buddhism Cambodia Composite Geotag Layers Monk Nikkor 14-24mm f:2.8 Nikon D3s Pagoda Phnom Sampow Pagoda Temple Texture