My first submission
Nov 14, 2017 11:38:43 #
I would say you hit it out of the park. Very nice. I like it in B&W. Cheers.
Nov 14, 2017 11:56:25 #
Excellent first post. Besides, I'm partial to B&W. Amazing, I've never seen Rodeo Drive empty.
Nov 14, 2017 12:48:04 #
Nov 14, 2017 17:13:54 #
Nov 14, 2017 17:48:11 #
Very nice result. Going to monochrome made your day!. Keep shooting and sharing!
Nov 14, 2017 19:03:38 #
Welcome to the Hog...it's a beaut shot but I can't give an opinion on colour V B&W without seeing the colour version... 
Ron.
Ron.
Nov 14, 2017 19:05:57 #
bleyton wrote:
This is my first photo submission to UHH. The wif... (show quote)
This looks attractive as a black and white.
Nov 14, 2017 23:54:05 #
Nov 15, 2017 01:27:20 #
The B & W works well for this shot. Thanks for sharing this very nice shot.
Nov 15, 2017 01:29:08 #
bleyton
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
Thanks for all of the kind comments. Here is a slight edit - I tweaked the vertical & cropped it, to make the buildings and lampposts straight. I'm not sure I have a real preference for this one over the other though. You can take away distortion in one area, but other areas still seem distorted.
And for SX2002, I added the color version. This is pretty much original, except that I tweaked the white balance to remove most of the orange cast (the original is a raw). In my opinion, the color version is just a nice snapshot. The B&W is way nicer.
And for SX2002, I added the color version. This is pretty much original, except that I tweaked the white balance to remove most of the orange cast (the original is a raw). In my opinion, the color version is just a nice snapshot. The B&W is way nicer.
Nov 15, 2017 02:29:57 #
Just a quick suggestion. You can use the Develop/Transform/Guided in Lightroom to correct both your vertical and horizontal perspectives, simultaneously.
I agree with you converting to B&W makes the image. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with you converting to B&W makes the image. Thanks for sharing.
Nov 15, 2017 05:16:28 #
SATS
Loc: Belgium
There is a lot more definition in the color version overall, particularly in the roadway and in the hanging lights but the B&W has tons more character and that is the one I would choose.
I didn't know about the Lightroom trick. The only way I know of doing it is with a very expensive shift tilt lens or a sliding back view camera, which are not practical options for most of us. I think most of us accept a little bit of perspective convergence, even if it is a tad more extreme than we experience in everyday life.
Since LR has been mentioned, I am still trying to make my mind up about editing software. At the moment I am uploading into Oly viewer 3 and editing in Mac photos. Problem is they don't do layers so all changes are global. I seem to have got the choice down to Luminar or LR. I don't want to get overwhelmed with the full hit of PS. Any thoughts? It is not my meaning to derail this thread so any responses can be sent as a private message.
I didn't know about the Lightroom trick. The only way I know of doing it is with a very expensive shift tilt lens or a sliding back view camera, which are not practical options for most of us. I think most of us accept a little bit of perspective convergence, even if it is a tad more extreme than we experience in everyday life.
Since LR has been mentioned, I am still trying to make my mind up about editing software. At the moment I am uploading into Oly viewer 3 and editing in Mac photos. Problem is they don't do layers so all changes are global. I seem to have got the choice down to Luminar or LR. I don't want to get overwhelmed with the full hit of PS. Any thoughts? It is not my meaning to derail this thread so any responses can be sent as a private message.
Nov 15, 2017 11:15:08 #
bleyton
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
SATS wrote:
There is a lot more definition in the color versio... (show quote)
The extra definition in the color version is probably because I didn't do any noise reduction on that version. Since I am still playing with a new camera, I probably tend to pixel-peep more than I should, and it helped there, but at the expense of the detail of the bricks in the roadway.
I bit the bullet and went with Creative Cloud. I figured that $10/month is a pretty good deal, and LR seems to have become the standard. I'm not thrilled with being locked in to Adobe, but I haven't really seen anything else that comes close to the power of PS & LR, or which has the ecosystem around it. If there is anything I want to do but don't know how, there is a Youtube video showing me how to do it.
Nov 15, 2017 16:57:54 #
Thanks for the colour version, I like them both about the same...
Ron
Ron
Nov 16, 2017 08:37:41 #
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