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Eugene Laverty in a wet mondello
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here is one that I am quite pleased with
This was part of 4 images that I put in to a competition, and it did not make the cut for the exibit
Excellent picture – I would probably try making a levels adjustment to bring it out a bit more but in terms of sharpness and composition thats bloody good. Great angle too – captures the feeling of speed on a wet surface really well. Improvement wise : I know it was probably a split second decision but if you could re-do that shot in the same circumstances and from the same position it might be worth trying to get the riders full reflection on the tarmac.
Ger
now this is my problem is that I dont know anything about photo shop.
So can you show me what you would do with it….. interested to see the difference
kenmurphy wrote:
Ger
now this is my problem is that I dont know anything about photo shop.
So can you show me what you would do with it….. interested to see the difference
Ok – I can have a go but I am far from a guru with it myself. Its not on the machine I am at right now but if no one else has a go in the meantime I will try (best effort basis only !) to have a go later from home.
Cheers for the kind comments lads and looking forward to seeing what can be done…
Very good capture, but after looking at your other pics from Mondello I think you should have lowered the ISO. I know you need a fast shutter but maybe opening the aperture a small bit even cause there is a load of noise in those pics, even a bit of post porcessing in Neat Image or Noise Ninja to sort it out.
Thats my only critique!
Love that shot ,I think the ISO needs to be high if your lens is slow .
Nice work.Brian.
kenmurphy wrote:
Ger
now this is my problem is that I dont know anything about photo shop.
So can you show me what you would do with it….. interested to see the difference
Ken – I think this is a great image which really doesn’t require any tinkering around with. It’s got all the ingredients of a great action shot. Excellent panning technique, the main subject is perfectly sharp, the background suitably blurred, the subject has room to move into and it’s even moving in the optimum direction (left to right, which is a more “comfortable” view because that’s the way we read). I’d be very happy to have taken this, but would need a lot more practice.
By now you’re probably saying to yourself “surely it can’t be perfect?” :wink: Wel, if you wanted the perfect shot, you would have had the rider leaning towards you rather than away from you (you’d need to have been on the inside of the bend rather than the outside). This way you would get to see a lot more of the rider and I think the image would have had even more tension then. But that’s really a minor point – this is still a great image.
I don’t think there is much you can do with the colours and exposure. A levels adjustment would simply have blown your highlights into over-exposure (I tried) because they are already quite near the edge as it is (the brightest points in the image are hovering close to that upper 254 value).
I’ve used an alternative method to make a slight adjustment and you can see the before and after image below. I changed the image to LAB Color mode, then I added a curves adjustment layer and steepend the a and b curves to boost the colours. I also changed the L curve to modify the contrast without blowing the highlights. Finally I converted back to RGB mode (after flattening the layers) and added an Unsharp Mask filter with values of 20,30,0. This has the efect of adding contrast but unfortunately, it also blew the highlights a little bit, as well as accentuating the noise, so I’m not so sure about that last step.
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Thanks for the comparsion the colors realy jump out now. This is the problem that I have in that if I try I nearly always blow the image and get well Pi**ed off and leave it.
As for taking the pic fron the inside the way the track is configured it would be very difficult to take as the corner is a sweeping near 90 degrees exiting from a straight with no visablity on to the straight from the corner. But yes I agree it would be better to see more of the rider.
As for the others photos I was taking photos at home of the kids and had the ISO up and for got to reduce it hence the noise.
Thanks all for the comments.
That second shot is worth of gracing a magazine cover IMO. Superb panning technique … I’m envious.
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