I think you did it really well - the result is more interesting to me
than straight shots of any bike racing pics - or any
racing pics, for that matter... but I'm not a fan of quite that much
manipulation except for (a) showing I can do it
and am therefore (b) commercially viable in this current climate...
Looking at them again - they all come out looking like critters from
outer space... from Spaceballs.
(actually, I bet they look like that without the photo manipulation -hehe)
But your straight shooting is much too good to bother with too much of
this sort of play.
ann
Mark Roberts wrote:
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
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