On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:45 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's a followup from last week's cycling photos. I've grabbed a couple > that I'd left out of the galleries and converted them to B&W. > > Each of these pics is around 200kb in size... I should have resized them a > bit smaller as a couple are a little too big vertically for my laptop screen. > > <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/bw/2257.html> > > I showed the original version of this last week: > <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/out-take-1.html> > > You'll see that I've cropped the B&W version slightly. > > > <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/bw/2380.html> > I left this one out because the sharp focus is on the rider's chest instead > of his face. But I liked the curves of the drainage channels on the road > surface. > > > <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/bw/2515.html> > Another one that I'd left out due to blur on the front rider, but I like > what's going on behind him. Plus there was a break in the clouds so I had > some shadows. > > Here's a colour version, which I think I actually prefer: > <http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/cycling/bw/2515-colour.html> > > If I can find time during the week I might throw the channel mixer at some of > the photos that I did put in the galleries.
They're all terrific! I really like 2380. Yes, it might be a teensy bit better if the face was in tighter focus, but the overall composition and lines more than overcome that IMHO. Very dynamic image!! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
