Glenn Butcher Wrote:
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> Kevin, hope you don't mind, I posted a link to the
> above post at DPReview, in a discussion about
> blown highlights:
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www.dpreview.com]
> um-post-65488213
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> Excellent example of blowing highlights as an
> aesthetic decision.
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> BTW, there's a crop in that image that gets rid of
> the "pesky photographer" and some of the modern
> background, and preserves the curving sweep of the
> track. Don't know how you feel about
> post-processing crop, but that IMHO would make it
> an image for the ages...
Hi Glenn,
Have a go at the crop with the low-res image and let me see what you are thinking. Since then, I took a subsequent frame that wasn't quite so cluttered, and did some Photoshopping. The results are not too bad:
It got a fair amount of attention over on RP.net.
It is unfortunate that so many photographers chose to insert themselves into the middle of really cool scenes. The yard activity was wide open to the public and cell-phone dudes were everywhere. I prefer to stand off from the action just a bit, so I don't anger other photographers, and hopefully enable all of us to get a decent shot. I personally like my compositions better than what could have been obtained by the people who felt compelled to be right at the water tank, but that's just me.
/Kevin Madore
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/16/2021 09:41PM by KevinM.