Dockside Frost II
More from the Dockside Green series. This rail, and the deck surface, had a nice coating of frost that caught the light very well as the sun was rising.
This time I prefer the colour, I think the light on the rail is better in colour – it pulls the eye through the picture more firmly than in the black and white. But I do like the black and white textures.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO100, ~f-11, 1/60th second +/- 2.0 E.V.
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burnt embers 
Again, I prefer the color version. It really really is a strong element on the railing and leads you right through the frame comfortably. The b&w is terrific, too, it’s just I seem to prefer the color one.
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Thank you Toad, it is odd how the colour one works better for what is otherwise the same image, but I completely agree with you in your choice.
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I like the color version better; I think the texture of the railing is more prominent, and as you say, pulls my eye into the photo. The highlights on rail in the b&w version seem a little blown out (which could be my monitor).
I can almost *feel* that frosty railing…
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Hi Melinda, those hightlights are a little blown out at the far end of the railing. A compromise in the treatment – blow them out or make them grey, I could not find anything in between and wanted them to look white. Mind you, I did not mask them and work at them individually which could have helped.
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Sometimes that happens – I’ve been fighting all day with an otherwise good shot that has a distant roof that is distractingly white.
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Yikes! That sounds like a lot of post for an intractible image. I hope you sorted it out.
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I gave up. That’s a form of “sorting out”, right?
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I like the little slick of frost, immortalized in your B & W version.
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Thanks Richard. That frost was thick enough to not be slippery, more like a thin layer of crunchy snow.
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The black and white one shows more derail of the pilings and other structures along the far shore. I like it for that.
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Thanks Val – I find it very difficult to balance that kind of thing in the colour versions – bringing up the mid tones often changes the colour or feel in ways that I am not aiming for.
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