What do you like best Black and white
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 21:53
On this particular shot Shaun I have to say that the BW is best. It focusses attention on the car rather than the surroundings.
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:10
Definitely the B&W - the car is brought out of the background and the car has a "crispness" that is somehow not there in the colour version.
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:13
I wonder if the car was there at all ?
The plane of focus doesn't extend into the surrounds at all, which appears odd I feel.
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The plane of focus doesn't extend into the surrounds at all, which appears odd I feel. My Guides to the Pentax Digital Camera Flash Lighting System : Download here from the PentaxForums Homepage Article .... link
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:17
I should have answered the question though - I rather think the colour works, especially the creamy car. Maybe you could tone down the reddy building behind which is more distracting in colour, but overall I'd stick to colour.
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:38
Both colour or black and white are fine, but what is very disturbing is the way everything but the car is blurred. That's very unnatural - there should be a plane of sharp focus where the car is sharp, gradually falling off in front and behind. Here everything has the same degree of blur everywhere.
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Last Edited by johnriley on 01/09/2013 - 22:39
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:41
I think the image has been processed with a Gaussian Blur on everything but the car. Personally I think this works as it draws attention to the car rather than the surroundings.
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:50
It does that - but still looks odd as it's not a natural optical effect. If its a filter effect then it should be possible to unblur the focus plane either side. Its more fiddly admittedly
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 22:54
I dont like the red brick building in the colour one.
BW looks best of the 2
BW looks best of the 2
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Posted 01/09/2013 - 23:35
A mono conversion using a blue filter would bring the car out even more, as all the background tones would be darker.
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Posted 02/09/2013 - 10:44
davidstorm wrote:
I think the image has been processed with a Gaussian Blur on everything but the car. Personally I think this works as it draws attention to the car rather than the surroundings.
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I think the image has been processed with a Gaussian Blur on everything but the car. Personally I think this works as it draws attention to the car rather than the surroundings.
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David
i said the same the b/w works good here i like it
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Posted 02/09/2013 - 10:56
johnriley wrote:
What is very disturbing is the way everything but the car is blurred. That's very unnatural - there should be a plane of sharp focus where the car is sharp, gradually falling off in front and behind.
What is very disturbing is the way everything but the car is blurred. That's very unnatural - there should be a plane of sharp focus where the car is sharp, gradually falling off in front and behind.
Agreed! It looks unnatural.
This is how I would selectively blur the image. The red areas are the sharp in-focus areas. The magenta areas would be slightly blurred. The rest would have the full blur effect.
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Posted 02/09/2013 - 11:08
There is a halo around the car which is clearer in the b/w version than in the colour.
I don't like the Gaussian blur affect at all I'm afraid, and because of that I can't say which treatment is better, though I'm leaning to the colour version.
I don't like the Gaussian blur affect at all I'm afraid, and because of that I can't say which treatment is better, though I'm leaning to the colour version.
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