Bike Rack being shadowed

Tony, excellent composition and play of light,shade and colours As you wrote, Montreal is cold but sunny.

Ha! Our snow melted this weekend before I could take advantage.Nice mixture of man and nature here. good idea with the diagonal slant.

Great idea and excellent use of light.. Just lovely shadow work!!

Thanks for stopping by - your comments are always appreciated. I took it this afternoon and the pickings were slim - I was heading back to the car when I spotted this and took a few images - portrait and landscape mode but I like this one the most. For those interested: this has very little post processing: I read the Raw file with Capture NX, invoke the D-light at 35% (peculiar to Nikon and Capture NX), level a bit re histogram, resize and focus (Capture NX terms) then save. Final step is to read the jpg file in Photoshop CS 2, convert the color space from Adobe to SGRB, and then peculiar to my workflow/system for PN, lighten the density by +10 and adjust yellow by 5 so that when it shows up at PN it will look like what I saw on my monitor.

PS it was too cold to work with my tripod and that is because I had enough bandwidth with a high shutter speed and good aperture.

For a moment I thought this was another of your HDR projects. I echo what some of the others have said: Nice subject and angle for this. The shadows helped guide with that, I suppose, huh?

Wonderful capture! Love the light, my compliments

 

Best regards, Pamela

Photos that capture the long shadows of Winter truly resonate in a personal way with those of us who experience this Season in snowy climates. I like the idea of mixed shadows from nature and a man made object and the warm colour of the sun light on snow. Very nicely done!

Clever composition, trees´ shadows against man-made forms and their shadows, well seen and composed in diagonal. As you decribe tech details, let me comment on blown-out red channel (common problem with digital). Probably from start from RAW, but when you convert from Adobe to sRGB space in jpeg, this is 24 bit color, this could lead to quality losses. I would convert to sRGB early in workflow, and in 48 bit TIFF. Blown-out red channel can be tricky to work around - a nice technique is described in this tutorial from thelightsright studio.

Wonderful and simple. Well done- Regards

Thanks for the support on this one.. Warm regards,

thanks again for all of the insightful comments and suggestions. I went back and realized that the red channel is clipped. The workflow I describe is for going to PN with a 'web sized' image. I do go the TIFF route when i need to make other changes in PS CS before printing and i have not been printing that much but that will change with a new Epson. This is valued input Carsten which is fairly rare these days - when given, perhaps someone's ego will be bruised - not mine - because I aim to learn as much as I can on this photographic journey I am taking.

Thanks for stopping by.

Spirally bound book of nature! Astounding. compliments -koushik

Thought I would share a quick technique for adding a small punch to an image without destroying the highlights: duplicate the original. hit; (on PC) alt-ctrl-shift and tilde (the funny character at the top on the left side of the one. hit control-J to copy that layer; F7 to get the layer box - change the blend mode from normal to soft light. There are probably other ways to achieve the same thing but this is the way I know and I don't use it very often unless I think the image needs it. Voila.

Thanks for commenting - glad you like it. best regards,

I like both versions, but I think the color adds a little more definition and warmth to the shot. - Charles

Charles - Thank you for your visit which is appreciated.