Around Venice (I)

[MFloyd]

Spend one day in the area of Venice...

(1) Lido de Jesolo - looking towards the lighthouse
(2) laguna between Venice and Jesolo

[Anthony]

Lovely, atmospheric photos, but there seem to be halos around the boat driver and the lighthouse, and around some other structures.

[Jakov Minić]

I am also curious as to the processing technique.

[Fons Baerken]

Niks color efex, me thinks.

[MFloyd]

Hi Antony, Jakov and Fons thanks for your visit.  Yes, I applied to both pictures what they call the Orton Effect.  There are many ways to proceed (in Ps); one of these is to duplicate the original image and to apply to the upper layer a (more or less) Gaussian blur; then, there are different ways to combine he two layers (here I used « embed »). I'm rarely using such PP techniques, but I found that it worked quite well on these, as it corresponds somewhat to my eye twilight vision.

Michael Orton: http://www.michaelortonphotography.com/ortoneffect.html

[Jakov Minić]

Thank you for sharing the know how and link. I found it a very interesting read and something that I might try in the future. Although my images are already blurry

[MFloyd]

Thank you Jakov 

A last drink on the nearly abandoned Lido of Jesolo, just before catching my plane, back home:

[armando_m]

Nice to see different shots from Venice

[MFloyd]

Thank you Armando 😉

[Thomas Stellwag]

a good set, 1 and 3 are my favs, i think 2 would work without boat, as the dreamy scene is acceptable unsharp, but the eye tries to get the boat sharp
the last one is Edward Hopper style  - great

[MFloyd]

Thank you Thomas.  What about this one "without boat" ?

[Thomas Stellwag]

without everything...I am not sure...
without boat, but the waves left, just cut behind the boat?

[MFloyd]

No, “before”, but I have one without the boat but with the waves left ☺️