On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:57 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick was the only person to comment on this shot and he had a more than > valid point, and there was something I could do about it. There's lots > of detail in the full resolution image, but it tends to disappear when I > resize it for the web. So I decided to try for more separation between > the very dark almost black bridge and the grayer background. I > lightened the image overall and then increased the contrast selectively > in the darker elements, curves can do wonders. Now the bridge pops a > bit more when compared to the background elements. (The crop is a > little different but still essentially the same). > > http://www.mindspring.com/~distilfink/PESO%20--%20grandavenuebridge.html >
I like this one a lot (I don't think I saw the original, as it looks like you used the same url for the second rendering?). Then again, I've always had a thing for draw bridges and swing bridges. They seem such an anachronism these days, and they seem so representative of the age in which they were built. This one is lovely, right in the centre of town (as they always seemed to be), with a church steeple peeking up from the superstructure. I like it a lot. The dark rendering seems perfect for gloomy day in a mill-town (as this appears it might be). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
