Here are a couple of photos that I really wanted to pick for the galleries but they didn't quite work out.
Notice the state of the fence in this one. Behind it is a near-vertical drop of about 200 metres. I was disappointed about the blurred rider but the background is a bit overexposed as well. When I first saw it on the camera screen I though I'd nailed a great shot :( <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/out-take-1.html> Here's the first photo from the first gallery for comparison. The background turned out a lot better at the expense of the foreground needing some careful work in Photoshop. I still had to crop out most of the blown-out sky but I liked the background so much I left it as a panorama even though I don't like the riders being in the centre. I also wanted to show that noone is in front of these guys (they were the race leaders, by quite a good margin as you can see). <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/good-1.html> Now that I look at it again I could probably lift the curves a little more. I'll also note that due to the roads not being closed, the safety rules theoretically forbid the riders from crossing the centre line. Only when the marshals are watching, of course. But I did make a point of cutting out any photo that shows a recognisable rider breaching the rule. Here's another out-take. I think it needed a slightly slower shutter speed. Warning, it might induce headaches :) I did play around with doing a B&W version but didn't really have the time to see it through. <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/out-take-2.html> Cheers, Dave -- 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.
