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4/16/2004 Bob Lawson

Two roads diverged... - by Bob L

Carmichael (near Sacramento) CA

Just experimenting with a trike I found sitting on my old high school's track; I'm not sure what I think of it myself but I thought I'd submit it and see what others thought of it.

Lots of post processing too; I'm really new to this but am trying to get used to it. Bumped up contrast, saturation, and lightness, resized, and rotated slightly. I tried USM but actually preferred it without.

Minolta DiMAGE Z1
Seems I lost my EXIF with DIVU; I really need to get rid of it..
Anyway this was 6mm (real focal length, around 45-50mm 35mm equivalent)
f/4.5
1/640 second
ISO 50
Aperture priority, -1ev exposure compensation, daylight white balance full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Konica Minolta Users26-Apr-2004 09:33
If you're interested, I started a thread on this image athttp://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1024&message=8558458 .
I tried changing the post processing on this before the contest ended but never arrived at anything I felt was superior. I know a lot of other people don't care for it, but personally I like the heavy contrast/heavy saturation look (aka "Sony Mode" :-) ). You can see the whole set of originals that I took of this subject athttp://www.calpoly.edu/~rclawson/trike/page1.html (notice links at bottom; there's six pages total)

I thank everyone who has commented on this image for both their praise and their insightful criticisms; you are helping me grow in my skill.
Konica Minolta Users25-Apr-2004 02:48
Yes, Yes, YES........ I love this shot..........sauturation & contrast are also my 2 best friends. Warm colors, cool colors, both working so well together & I like the tricycle idea...... we may not win many votes with high contrast & saturation, but it is great eye candy for some, thanks - Iam3D
Konica Minolta Users24-Apr-2004 22:22
DSL

I like this shot, kinda has amerian 50's feel, i dont or cant explain why, i think it maybe the saturation in the sky that does, but it works well.
Veronica Fresh24-Apr-2004 00:50
You sure do enjoy post processing! And I do enjoy the set-up, composition and use of complementary colors. Left this way it would appear to me to be a surrealist photograph. Nicely balanced... the horizon is a bit up-center and the bike is an anchor object. I just can't look at it in it's final stage because of it's brightness & extra heavy saturation.
Veronica
Claudio Gatti22-Apr-2004 01:19

I like the composition and framing. The PP is "a bit" too extreme for my taste, but still an intersting picture

Claudio
Konica Minolta Users21-Apr-2004 10:10
I renamed it; I'll take another look at pp tomorrow when I'm more awake (I'm really tired right now). Thanks for the comments though.
Konica Minolta Users21-Apr-2004 09:27
Bob, could you pls. modify the title of the picture in ..title.. "by Bob L.". Thanks.
I feel this picture has a high potential. I would like to see the bike less red (it's so red that even I can see it) and much more detail in the trees. If you want to, you are allowed to make changes and repost in the same place. Paul.