guybat
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Mine was #3.
It's way too bright, partly because I was fiddling with my monitor brightness, as Vuk surmised, after getting some over-dark prints back; and I was also trying to keep the sky shapes intact, which is pretty much impossible without losing contrast elsewhere. I was also trying unsuccessfully to pull back a lot of the blown highlights on the left.
I almost never crop my own stuff, so it doesn't normally occur to me with other people's; but I thought the slight crops others used worked well.
The B&W conversions too worked better, as neutralising the white balance got the slightly weird colours Matthew and I got. There's not a lot of leeway if you're trying to balance sodium lights.
I don't think it's a particular strong shot - Cesare's 2nd is much better - but a good one to work with. You learn a lot from trying to make the not-quite-there shots work.
It's way too bright, partly because I was fiddling with my monitor brightness, as Vuk surmised, after getting some over-dark prints back; and I was also trying to keep the sky shapes intact, which is pretty much impossible without losing contrast elsewhere. I was also trying unsuccessfully to pull back a lot of the blown highlights on the left.
I almost never crop my own stuff, so it doesn't normally occur to me with other people's; but I thought the slight crops others used worked well.
The B&W conversions too worked better, as neutralising the white balance got the slightly weird colours Matthew and I got. There's not a lot of leeway if you're trying to balance sodium lights.
I don't think it's a particular strong shot - Cesare's 2nd is much better - but a good one to work with. You learn a lot from trying to make the not-quite-there shots work.