From: "P. J. Alling"
Some may remember this from a few years ago. I've been going through
some images for project and found this. I was never completely happy
with it originally so I decided to create a new version.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20chartreusecouperevisited.html
Equipment. Pentax *sst-Ds/w smc Pentax FA 28-200 f3.8~5.6.
Notes: The original background showed too much modernity which was a
bit distracting so I used a number of layers in Photoshop to try to make
for a smooth transition to the heavily Gaussian blurred background. I
then selected the portion of the car that was painted chartreuse created
a new layer from the selection and increased the saturation and bumped
it up to a slightly deeper green. Merged everything except the green
layer and converted that to B&W using the Fotomatic B&W Plus plugin with
the filtration set to red. It was a lot more work than I probably should
have spent on it.
As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
Doesn't really work for me.
First of all the transition from the sharp focus to the blurred
background looks un-natural. There's a visible line across the image
right below the word STOP on the tail lights.
Above the line the background is blurred, below the line it isn't. The
transition is too abrupt.
There's also a halo around the car where the background is blurred,
almost as if the car was penetrating a physical wall of distortion.
Secondly that color is garish on a B&W image. Might work with an almost
completely desaturated image, but again the transition is so abrupt it's
jarring.
My opinion, so make of it what you will.
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