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Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:07 am**

Hey everyone, here are some photos I took this weekend. We were in a bit of a rush, and couldn't stop and take more time. What do you all think? Tips?

These were taken in Seattle, WA

and this one is just for fun :-P

Sorry about the bad links :oops:

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:15 pm**

Pictures not showing up, except the last one (just for fun)

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:27 pm**

I have the same problem, nice squirrel but no pictures above!

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:08 pm**

all better, sorry about that, I moved some of the pictures to their proper gallaries, and the links got messed up, won't happen again. :oops:

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:06 pm**

What no Space Needle? Seattle is a great city, I have some relatives there and would love to get there again. I still have one of the original wooden toy space needles that were made for the expo but delivered late, in my office as a reminder of my visit. As to the pics, I actually like the squirrel shot, but in BW I think the strongest potential image you have there is the last BW one because of the lines in the image. The others lack impact and structure to my eye. In that image you might try cropping out the sky to focus attention on the diagonals. Please excuse any comments as I am only a novice myself and you asked for opinions, but that is what I would do. Contrast might be tweaked as well. You can see I am full of opinions today!

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:50 am**

Hi rebel.

(all opinions for what they are worth and because you asked

)
I think your BW conversions are letting you down here. They are a bit
lacking in punch. There have been some threads discussing BW
conversion techniques - do a search and see what you find.

I think contrast is important - a BW shot which has all shades from black
to white generally looks better than one with various shades of mid
grey**. Not always easy to do while retaining detail etc, but a good
objective

** At the same time low key and high key images also look great, but
they generally have some part being either black or white, with a limited
range from that starting point.

cheers

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:54 am**

thanks for the comments, i will do search for the B/W images. hope to get back to you all with something stunning...eventually.

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:33 am**

http://www.d70users.net/viewtopic.php?t ... ht=convert

This is worth a look

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:42 am**

well, i tried that method, is it an imporvement? (and i am aware my verticals are not quite vertical...i can fix that easly though)

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B&W attempt #1 :-) (56k warn.)

B&W attempt #1 :-) (56k warn.)