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Bikers day at Kirkcaldy prom
Iam new to digi photography so excuse the photo but its my best effort yet. This groups a wee bit daunting because of all the fine work but i hope to learn from you guys. Don't know why but iam drawn towards b/w photography so hopefully i will develop with your help.
Rod
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D7000  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 50mm f/1.8 D |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 11 Aug 2012 - 12:49 AM |
| Focal Length: | 50mm |
| Aperture: | f/1.8 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/2000sec |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | Born To Be Wild |
| Username: | 
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| Uploaded: | 12 Aug 2012 - 4:20 PM |
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Comments
good to see some "proper bikers."
In the 80s, they used to arrive en masse & camp up the quarries on portland..thesze days it seems to be all racing bikes.
.... great phot, great capture of one of the "tribes of Britain."
Gareth
sorry
I like the tension created between the bikers and the little lad on a scooter... as if he is thinking 'one day, when I grow up!!!'
On the critical side - it just feels like it is missing a bit of punch in terms of contrast - perhaps try pushing this a little more?
Adam
Wow if I was new to digital photography and didn't have any imaging software and yet still produced a shot like this I'd be dead chuffed! I much prefer these sorts of documentary shots to posed portraits and love the contrast between the two hairy biker dudes engrossed in conversation and the envious/curious onlookers in the background. I've just bought "The Great LIFE Photographers" book and this wouldn't look out of place in there!
Possibly as suggested increasing the contrast and darkening the top of the sky a tad might work but I think its a brilliant image as it is!
(can you tell I like this a lot!)
Simon
Thanks alot Simon very kind words and after looking thru your portfolio high praise indeed !!! Some of your work is outstanding i need to get a ND big stopper . Definately darkening the sky would add more to the picture but will have to wait until i get PS (don't tell my wife).
Rod
Thanks Rod,
If you've not used PS before can I suggest you look at Lightroom instead. It does most of what PS can do, is especially good for working on RAW images coupled with an excellent image management system, has some very good B&W conversion built in, with quite lot more free presets that can be downloaded, and is much cheaper than PS. Up until June I was using PS CS5.5 exclusively I then managed to blag a fee copy of LR4.1 from Adobe (after a long struggle!) and I'm loving it, though I found there's quite an initial learning curve if you move from PS to LR. For me the only time I still use PS is actual pixel manipulation such a cloning and selecting sections of image to work on (though LR can do this to some extent as well). You can download the full version and try it free for 30 days.
Simon
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