On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> 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

7d905614 - leading the pack is a member of Toronto's Cervelo Test Team!

All very cool photos - love the concept and rendering.

Great work in tough conditions.

cheers,
frank

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"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."  -Henri Cartier-Bresson

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