Beijing: Create Your Own Postcard
In response to my last post, reader Xiaoniu commented with this set of images (one, two, three) of some rather strikingly blue skies during his trip to Beijing. While they’re not quite as photogenic as the postcards I showed, they do come very close. I would much appreciate it if any readers with Beijing experience could attest to how common this is, especially after seeing this Wikipedia image (mirrored here) of a supposed “good Beijing day”/”bad Beijing day” comparison.
Perhaps nice weather is more common than I thought in Beijing, or perhaps clear skies and rainbows just follow Xiaoniu wherever he goes.
At any rate, because I can’t leave well enough alone, and in case anyone doubts the power of Photoshop, here are three alternate “postcard” versions of my Summer Palace picture that I ran through Photoshop. Aside from the sky backgrounds, I used no other source images.
The oringinal image:
A touched-up version with the sky replaced, contrast corrected, and saturation increased:
A northern lights version of the palace:
The palace in the Lord of the Rings’ land of Mordor:
You can find the background images I used here, here, and here.
Beijing Tourism Commission, my contact info can be found at the top of the page. My rates are very reasonable.
:D
Very nice…
↓ Quote | Posted September 30, 2006, 6:57 amHmm . . . maybe its high time for me to get a decent book on photoshop and start learning it properly. Those images are cool!
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