B & W - Tick or flick

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B & W - Tick or flick

Postby stubbsy on Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:53 pm

Playing with two shots from the last harbour walk that were in my too hard pile. Decided to play with B & W on them. What do you think?

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Postby big pix on Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:03 pm

nice treatment with both....... the buildings in the background of the first I find a tad of a distraction...... maybe a slightly tighter crop, or show more buildings

maybe a slight vertical correction on the second as camera is looking up
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Postby Geoff on Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:09 am

Peter - the 2nd shot is great, not so sure about the first though. As said, the buildings in the b/g are somewhat distracting.
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Postby norbs on Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:10 am

#1 flick
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Postby Killakoala on Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:11 am

I like both and feel your B&W transforms are very nice indeed. Perhaps cloning out the modern buildings in the first would add more olde-worlde charm to the image.
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Postby Patrolman Pat on Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:26 am

Another tick for the second shot.
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Postby Alex on Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:51 am

I like No. 2 a lot, Peter. A very nice atmosphere created.

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Postby DVEous on Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:08 pm

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Postby robert on Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:21 am

I like the first one, but can see the point a few have made re the buidlings. What about darkening the units on right and buildings and some selective gaussian blur just to take the edge off. not sure how much you'd need to cover as just one blurry section would look a little funny,

If youre anything like me i'll spend an hour playing around and then when i reopen the original almost always prefer it with just some levels adjustment!

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