So... yesterday I went downtown for the first annual Mayor's Cup, a criterium bicycle race in downtown Boston. The racing started fairly late in the day for this time of year: The sun was pretty low even at the start and, being downtown amidst all the buildings, much of the course was in deep shadow... except the parts that were in dazzling sunlight. Exposure, color balance, all extremely wacky. Even at the default neutral raw conversion settings, color saturation was off the charts.
So rather than attempt the fool's errand of trying to make the resulting shots look normal, I dialed down the highlights as much as possible, turned up the black levels and contrast and turned down the color saturation to get... http://www.robertstech.com/blog/photos/gallery15/index.html Photos shot with K10D and K20D, all (I think) with FA*300/2.8 -- 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.
