On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Bob W wrote: > Are you crazy? The first two are great!? > > Convert them to contrasty black and white and you have a couple of shots the > equal of many here: > <http://www.rouleur.cc/>
Hmm, maybe I might reconsider my opinion of that first one. The second one made it into the gallery, I just linked to it as a comparison. I was able to make it bigger on that page because the gallery template on my main site is too narrow, something I might address soon with a customised layout. It will increase the download size though. I might play with the cropping of the second one because the composition still bugs me a little. It might look better on the wall if I print it reasonably large, but I'm tempted to crop a little off the left. I had two reasons for presenting it as it is; firstly I wanted to show that noone was in front of these guys, and secondly I didn't want to trim out the background. I am definitely wanting to play with B&W conversions of several photos. I didn't have the time to spend on getting a good conversion so I decided to leave that until later. The blurry front rider is not annoying me so much now, especially after I realised that I liked a couple of similar ones in the criterium photos. The sky would probably be a lot less distracting in B&W (I see a couple of the Rouleur photos have blown-out skies). So may be I'm still being too much of a fussy landscaper. (For reference, here are the pics we're talking about) <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/out-take-1.html> <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/good-1.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.
