Bangkok: Vegetable Vendor
Bangkok, Thailand 2007
I’ve tried several times to turn one of my photos into a sketch, but have never liked any of the results until yesterday. My first iteration of this shot evolved into bright, highly saturated cartoon-like colors that I liked but then decided to carry on at my computer since I still had tea in my cup. My color version was rather pale and I thought to turn the photo into a high-key black and white. This reminded me of a sketch. I used Topaz Impression to make my sketch. If you don’t have that plug-in, just use Photoshop’s filter gallery. Ink Outlines filter is good, but try all of them to find the one that suits your image and pleases you.
I love the position of this woman’s body, don’t you? I think Camille Claudet would like it!
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Floating Market Bangkok
I have many shots from the floating market which is a tourist attraction. I chose my subjects carefully so I’d have images that evoked the days when the market served the locals. This woman had a large Styrofoam box in her boat. Most likely she used it to keep foods cold. I got rid of that using a combination of clone tool and cutting and pasting sections of the boat thus covering the Styrofoam. I used Topaz Impressions to give this a ”
Da Vinci” sketch look. The white whites and the black blacks will make a dark room photographer appreciate this photo. Those crumpled newspapers! Perfect!
Foremother of Food Truck
And lastly, I want to show a floating restaurant…the first “food truck”. The woman in the upper boat has a wok filled with oil and multiple skewers (exposed to the open air and to the hot sun…horrors!!) ready to fry. How does she manage to deep-fry in a wok on an unstable boat? She has to have an open flame. Danger! Her business wouldn’t last long in the U.S. Government regulators would soon shut her down and fine her within an inch of her life. She’d be left with a plate of bananas to sell like the woman in the lower part of the photo.