I really like the first two, the first guy looks very Roman indeed! The highlights look a bit blown but it's a great expression on his face. It might look better cropped to portrait as the bokeh doesn't add anything to the shot.

I find the last one quite comical, I don't know if they all have different budgets for their clothes, but one has shiny metal shin-guards, some have cloth ones, and one poor chap has bare legs! The two guys at the front have contrasting expressions too, one looks scared and the other looks like he's having a great time!
I think the first colour one would perhaps look better with the lamp cropped off the left hand side?

Congratulations! I sent them four pictures a while ago, and they have just accepted one of them, surprisingly it is an HDR that was accepted.

I really like the second shot, great reflections. It might be worth cutting out the car and pasting it onto a grassy background/sky with similar lighting?

From Wikipedia:

•Duotone is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasty color halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. The most common colors used are blue, yellow, browns and reds.


Strangely, the word duotone does not appear in the Oxford, Collins or Chambers online dictionaries.

Julius Shulman, who died last year, is one who I think really stood out, in spite of a lot of his work being "American Dream" style commercial stuff. link

It is a great subject, must be worth another visit! I agree with Ian, I think in general architectural shots need a wide-angle approach to make them more interesting.

I agree. The foreground twigs in PaulM's version have darker bits from the processing which look rather odd and make the processing too obvious. I prefer MikeW's version, although I do like the added colour in the trunk in PaulM's version.

It sounds quite good but for one problem. I just had a look on the Sigma website and it won't take filters, so I will get the 10-20.

Thanks for that John! Not sure why that did not come up when I googled it......

Does anyone know of any reviews of this lens? I know it has been discussed on here before but I don't think there were any links to reviews. I am planning on getting a new 10-20 but this one is a bit of a tempting alterntaive. Can't seem to find any reviews though. Also there seems to be contradictory information on the web about whether it will take filters.