Reflections in monochrome

[stubbsy]

Haven't taken any pics for a while so the visit to casa birddog at Boat Harbour was fun despite the lousy weather. Here's a picture I loved, but took a while to get a treatment I liked. Click the image for a larger version.

My other shots from this outing can be found here and here

[flipfrog]

very interesting unconventional portrait....

like it

[leek]

Nice shot Peter... D70users walk on water!

[Killakoala]

I like this one Peter. Very intersrting subject matter and a nice backdrop and foreground type of thing.

[sirhc55]

Nicely done Peter, with a few well known personalities to boot

[zeb00]

Very nice photo. what does it look like with the group of three croped off the right as they are kind of bunched and take away from the rest of the photo. BTW watch out for choppers. i think that is the only heli pad to never have a chopper land on it.

[pippin88]

Is that what it is? We were trying to work out the function of a giant concrete pad.

IMO the bunched people on the right sort of lead into the more spaced out people on the left - a curve or a spiral. It would work better if there was a little less bunching, and perhaps a little more spacing between those on the right most.

[Catcha]

Great shot, keeps me wondering whether the ground is really slippery or not...good effects

[stubbsy]

Thanks guys for the comments.

IMO the bunched people on the right sort of lead into the more spaced out people on the left - a curve or a spiral. It would work better if there was a little less bunching, and perhaps a little more spacing between those on the right most.

That's the problem I had with the shot. I like the masts that line up behind The people three people in the centre and tried cropping out the group on the right, but kept coming back to the way I posted above because of the lead in effect from the right.

FWIW below is the crop I did with the right bunch removed:

[Manta]

Both great Peter but I like the cropped version better.

[zeb00]

Is that what it is? We were trying to work out the function of a giant concrete pad.

IMO the bunched people on the right sort of lead into the more spaced out people on the left - a curve or a spiral. It would work better if there was a little less bunching, and perhaps a little more spacing between those on the right most.

yeah i think they have been banned from using it thats why they have removed the big (H) and put up flag poles around it.

i see what you mean about the crop its a hard one

[BBJ]

I like this pic peter, it's good to see womeone in the midle there wearing my usual atire, the shorts.LOL Actually i have jeans ontoday been out on my BMW riding so yeh i think overall this is a nice pic and well done and if only you could have got boats on the same level they could have been waling on water.

[stubbsy]

I like this pic peter, it's good to see womeone in the midle there wearing my usual atire, the shorts.LOL Actually i have jeans ontoday been out on my BMW riding so yeh i think overall this is a nice pic and well done and if only you could have got boats on the same level they could have been waling on water.

John

The guy in the shorts is birddog

[Matt. K]

Peter
A surreal image...in fact, rather bizaar. They are the ones I like the best because they are so damned hard to get. You got the eye!

[stubbsy]

Peter
A surreal image...in fact, rather bizaar. They are the ones I like the best because they are so damned hard to get. You got the eye!

Ahh but I feel a bit guilty about this since I know you also have one similar and I was able to get mine up first because you were still at birddogs

This was the first one I PP'd since it just screamed out at me when I saw it. Took about an hour to settle on a treatement I liked though. Got to bed at 3 am

[BBJ]

Thanks Peter, i maybe figured that but wasn't sure as face is a bit dark but yeh i live in shorts drives everyone mad asking am i cold, i gues i am used to it.

[Geoff]

Pete I really like this shot, it is so different and unique...well done!

[mic]

Yep, unique like you Stubbsy

Great shot, I like the crop one better.

You could have named it ( Cool Feet )

Mic.

[Neeper]

Very interesting shot indeed.

[KerryPierce]

Very cool shot, Peter. I assume, since you said it took an hour to process, that there was no water on the pad. If so, what technique did you use to get the effect?

[stubbsy]

Very cool shot, Peter. I assume, since you said it took an hour to process, that there was no water on the pad. If so, what technique did you use to get the effect?

The pad was covered with water and the reflections were in the shot - I'm not THAT clever .

It was a very overcast day and originally I was trying to give it punch as a colour shot and wasted probably 30 minutes or so. Then I decided to do monochrome which was in the right direction, so I experimented with different crops - the image is taller than either of these crops and has more detail on the left and right - once I had the crop right I then fiddled with sepia and B & W and decided B & W was the go. I played with curves to get the people and the shadows right (I didn't want the detail of the people to be too dominant) since the feature was the shadows. Finally I hit the right B & W conversion. I used Nik Color Efex Graduated ND filter to darken the top and lose some detail in the people, then used Nik Color Efex Paper Toner filter to convert to monochrome.

And all this was done in NC, although I used PS CS2 to add the border around the posted image.

[KerryPierce]

Very cool shot, Peter. I assume, since you said it took an hour to process, that there was no water on the pad. If so, what technique did you use to get the effect?

The pad was covered with water and the reflections were in the shot - I'm not THAT clever .

ahh, okay, now I understand why it took so long to process. I know of a couple of techniques or tools, like Flaming Pear's Flood filter, that you could do that with, but it would be a real bear to do it with the type of image you have.

[wendellt]

Peter

there is alot of storytelling going on in the image so conceptually it is
engaging, the reflections show a duality of the subject and their abstracted reflected personas

leep it up

were these taken this saturday long weekend or some time back?

[stubbsy]

Thank you all for your comments. I really like this shot and am still working on getting the cropping right. My latest iteration is slightly wider to add a bit of space to the right and some more of the top. I think I've stopped fiddling