Lunchtime Photo. C&C please

jaqian

Took this on Stepehens Green at lunch time today, wondered what people thought of it. C&C welcome.

Rob


You can view a larger version here.

AnimalRights

mmm clever photo, would prob go for a darker contrast but not by much, would like to see one of the B+W PP conversion specialists like DarrenG have a go at this, border seems a bit too simplistic too.
It's a decent photo just lacking something even more that I can't quite put my finger on.

City-Exile

I like it.
Nice shot which differs from the usual.

jaqian

@AnimalRights:
DarrenG or anyone else for that matter are more than welcome to have a go at this, I'm always open to new ideas. How would you suggest I do the border? Point me to a good tut?

@Bedlam:
I know the paving slabs on the left seem to throw the brain a bit

Thanks CityExile

AnimalRights

Not got a clue about framing/borders I'm not at that stage yet!

Calina

Hi there,

Did you take this in black and white or did you do a conversion? Cos if you did a conversion I would have a go off the colour file although I suspect there isn't much contrast to play with judging by what the weather was like.

I like it a lot. I would consider doing this with the frame: but bear in mind it's what I do with a lot of my black and white frames lately:

very narrow white frame and wider black frame. I did this in Photoshop by increasing the canvas size twice.

Balfey1972

took me a minute to figure out the photo. I like it alot. well done

jaqian

Calina wrote: »

Hi there,

Did you take this in black and white or did you do a conversion? Cos if you did a conversion I would have a go off the colour file although I suspect there isn't much contrast to play with judging by what the weather was like.

I like it a lot. I would consider doing this with the frame: but bear in mind it's what I do with a lot of my black and white frames lately:

very narrow white frame and wider black frame. I did this in Photoshop by increasing the canvas osize twice.

Yes you guessed right I took this in colour and converted to b&w. Its cropped and resized. Here is the original uncropped jpeg if you want to have a go...
Photo for C&C

Do you have any examples of the frames on your Flickr? (Link please)

Cheers,
Rob

Calina

Hi Rob,



I had a quick go at this the other evening; only got around to posting it today.

As you can see, I cut it slightly differently, but to get to this stage I

1) messed around with the curves a little bit. there wasn't much contrast so this is all I got.
2) converted to black and white
3) modified the brightness a little.

I did think about leaving the traffic light reflection read but it didn't really work in my eyes.

The frames were added by extending teh canvas size. I think I added about 3 tenths of a cm width and height for the white and about 4 cm for the black, height and width.

If you've any questions, just ask. I hope you like it.

regards

jaqian

I like what you did with it. Never thought of leaving the person in it. I also like the conversion, was this done in PS?

Thanks Teresa, plenty to think about for future photos.

Rob

Tactical

Does anyone feel that adding a little grain may do any thing more for the shot or is that just done too often with B&W's these days? By grain, I mean just a subtle amount, nothing too mad.

Love the original, especially what Calina has done with it.

Loopy

I like it:)