Photoshop Tuesday: Lunar Havoc

Turning my photoshop skills to the Bay Area. I turned this rather mundane image of the Golden Gate bridge....


Into this:
The idea came to me at work. A phenomenally large moon over the Bay Area. Then I wondered, what would be the result? so I had to have the moon play havoc with the tide, as it would. This scenario is enough to make Ken Ring blush!

I sampled two other sources for the moon and the sand. I used a smudge and burn technique to colour the sand so it looks like as it would if the ocean had suddenly been ripped from it. The removal of the washed-out look was achieved by adjusting the colour balance.