Street Fair: A crowd taking advantage of the shade during a Street Fair and Art Festival. Camera: Nikon D500 Lens: 18-140 mm f/3.5-5.6 Shot at 18 mm Exposure: Manual exposure, 1/250...

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

A crowd taking advantage of the shade during a Street Fair and Art Festival.

Camera: Nikon D500
Lens: 18-140 mm f/3.5-5.6
Shot at 18 mm
Exposure: Manual exposure, 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 100

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fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

Nice to see a black and white from you Jan. I think there is more you can do with it. The histogram is heavy on the left and a lot of the medium shades have gone very dark.

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

[quoteB&W=fergmark]Nice to see a black and white from you Jan. I think there is more you can do with it. The histogram is heavy on the left and a lot of the medium shades have gone very dark.[/quote]

Thank you Mark. I still have B&W in my blood, but mostly with film. Digital presents many more tools in the way of correcting or enhancing an exposure, but that comes with a new learning curve. Thank you for your constructive comment.

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

Looks like a City Council meeting to me. Great shot!

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

AZNikon wrote:

Looks like a City Council meeting to me. Great shot!

Thank you. I think the beer might be a little colder at this meeting.

Voss

A good one, SpyderJan. Regarding fergmark's observation, you could go a long way toward correcting that by cropping the awning a little above the front lower edge, where the two little lights are, thereby eliminating about two-thirds of the large black mass. And perhaps crop out a little of the ground at the bottom.

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

Voss wrote:

A good one, SpyderJan. Regarding fergmark's observation, you could go a long way toward correcting that by cropping the awning a little above the front lower edge, where the two little lights are, thereby eliminating about two-thirds of the large black mass. And perhaps crop out a little of the ground at the bottom.

Hey Voss. I already cropped out a lot of the area above the canopy and I didn't want to cut any more off of the trees, so I will take another route and lighten up that area without cropping. Thanks for your comment.

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

OK. Here is another treatment taking into account the remarks of Fergmark and Voss.

Exposure Correction
Exposure Correction...

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fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

SpyderJan wrote:

OK. Here is another treatment taking into account the remarks of Fergmark and Voss.

I always wonder what kind of cropping has been done prior to submitting. With so much more to see it has really changed. I have learned, that with black and white, it is not uncommon, and usually necessary to clip the darks and lights. Part of what I like so much about b/w. You just don't get the blown highlights as you do in color. I put this new one in PS and pulled in the sliders in levels, to somewhat clip both the darks and lights. Try it. I found that when printing b/w it was essential to do some clipping in pp on the way to a good print.

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

fergmark wrote:

I always wonder what kind of cropping has been don... (show quote)

Thanks Mark. I rarely consider printing when I process. I am not at a point in my learning process where I am ready to think about prints. When I was in the Army, I had access to darkroom and printing and as there was no other way to share images, I used the facilities often. Since then, I haven't done any printing myself.

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

SpyderJan wrote:

Thanks Mark. I rarely consider printing when I process. I am not at a point in my learning process where I am ready to think about prints. When I was in the Army, I had access to darkroom and printing and as there was no other way to share images, I used the facilities often. Since then, I haven't done any printing myself.

You must have looked at Graham Smith's "conversation in a pub" in FYC. this is the histogram of that photo. Its not just for printing. Its the visual impact.

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Heather Iles Loc: UK, Somerset

SpyderJan wrote:

OK. Here is another treatment taking into account the remarks of Fergmark and Voss.

Perhaps you could put your photo through NIK program for B&W that was free, but I am not sure if it is still free as it was purchased by DXO. Perhaps another member will be able to advise you further on this.

Voss

It does make a difference seeing the whole thing. I like the larger one better--it has an entirely different feel to it. By the way, if you don't have the Nik Collection and are interested in it, I highly recommend it. You can try these sites to see if it's still a freebee here. https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Plugins/Nik-Collection.shtml Another possibility: https://download.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/Nik-Collection/FREE-1.2.11.html

merrytexan Loc: georgia

SpyderJan wrote:

OK. Here is another treatment taking into account the remarks of Fergmark and Voss.

I prefer this lighter shot with less cropped, jan...very nice and interesting shot!