Giger Museum Cafe, Gruyere, Switzerland

Giger Museum Cafe, Gruyere, Switzerland, originally uploaded by TimDD.

Gruyere, Switzerland, is a picturesque 16th century village-cum-castle in the “pre-alpine” hills above Lac Leman (Lake Geneva).

As other photos will follow, of that quaint village and castle, please do not conclusion-leap over this strange one from the HRGiger Museum Cafe.

Techniques used: TopazAdjust3 on a copy layer — punched the detail and color a bit.  Masked Julie’s hand to reduce some of the excessive saturation in the skin tones.  Top layer: created an ellipse, quick-masked it, gaussian-blurred the edge, filled with black and reduced opacity to 40% ( standard vignette technique) to draw attention to the center of the image.  Overlay mode on the vignette layer to scorch up some of the shadow edges.

Tagged as: Gruyere, HRGiger, Lake Geneva, Switzerland