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
Very difficult conditions and some very interesting and unique results.
I especially like 7d905610 and 7d905635.
I find myself wanting to see more face detail in several. You could have
used one of those wildlife telephoto-flash attachments to let you light
faces. I suspect that the racers wouldn't appreciate somebody beaming
focussed flash at them though. ;-)
-bmw
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