Fortnightly Challenge 9th Oct to midnight 23rd Oct - Street Photography

[John&me]

Thanks annieh

[DigiDiva]

Well done to John for this weeks win. A lovely image and well deserved. My uppy and downy comments:

Uppy - Peter Waites 'Well Known Location' - I liked the composition and the leading lines of the houses to the right. The shine from the rain worked well too, however it's a shame about the lack of interest in the sky but these things happen. We can't always have a perfect sky. I would have liked to have seen this as a monochrome, would have worked wellwith the cobbles. Where is it BTW???

Downy - As mine was last, my downy is the 1st image. John's 'Just A Street'. I liked this from the start. Hehas made an ordinary street look extraordinary. I like the composition and the processing. It had foreground and background interest. Well done.

Mine - was a scrappy effort this week, had no motivation and dragged myself out in the rain at the last minute for this one. Apologies, however thanks for the one vote.

[Peter Waites]

Mmm risky business this street stuff - I gave up on including people after one dodgy moment in Otley, Madoldie's altercation is just a bit too noisy to get the viewer involved I think but it was a brave attempt.
Digi's bike was a good shot but yeah maybe a bit short on "oomph".
Mine was shot in Haworth Digi - well worth a visit- and you're spot on about the sky. Wish I'd taken my tripod and set up a coupla shots.

[DigiDiva]

Peter, sometimes we have to make the best of what we have! My mirror tells me this every day!

[DigiDiva]

Has everyone one their ups and downs?

[Gidders]

My up - Robski's After Dark. I liked this image - its got an impressionist feel, but for me it was lacking something with a bit of clarity. It may have been worth trying trying a bit of fill in flash at, say -2 stops, to just create some features in the walking couple.

My down - Madoldie's Altercation. I struggled with this one a bit - the brightly lit doorway on the left dominates the image and other than that the rest is a bit indistinct to work out what it's supposed to be. Again some fill in flash might have helped.

[Gidders]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Sometimes we have to make the best of what we have!

That's definitely true... but I'd be interested to know how you are doing your black & white conversions. Looking at the image, you've got a great sky & some gorgeous old brickwork so I would have though it should be possible to create quite a punchy conversion.

If you'd like to post the full colour original, maybe I could make some suggestions?

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by Gidders

That's definitely true... but I'd be interested to know how you are doing your black & white conversions. Looking at the image, you've got a great sky & some gorgeous old brickwork so I would have though it should be possible to create quite a punchy conversion.

If you'd like to post the full colour original, maybe I could make some suggestions?

Wil sort that over the weekend. Im stuck with photoshop cs3 no b&w specific programmes. Im still learning and scared of too much post processing. My image was a little flat i must say.

[Gidders]

I use CS3 and although its been superseded 4 times its still a very capable program. While I have the Nik Silver Efex plugin, within photoshop there are a number of different B&W conversion methods that give great results

[DigiDiva]

Heres the original, though I did shoot in RAW