Benched
This was taken one of those chilly late winter days when no one lingers too long on park benches.
Not even gulls.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO200, f4.5, 1/160th +/- 2.0 E.V.
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I like the half-bench – it was the first thing I noticed. Then I saw the delicate coloring, which is perfect for this shot.
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Thankyou. Sometimes a muted colour seems just right.
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Very nice, love the toning, slight monochrome/slight colour.
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Thanks Ben. That toning was arrived at in Photomatix while processing the brackets (which were necessary because the sky was a lot brighter than the foreground, and I had no graduated filter with me). Sometimes that desaturated look really works, with a bit of the feeling of a grey tone about it.
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I love the composition and the pale colour.
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Hi Kiki – thanks a lot. It was a toss up what to do with the second bench, but I do like the point of view looking up hill. There are a lot of houses behind this bench, and it is so much better without any of them.
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This is a colour picture is it not? The paleness of the colour emphasizes the greyness of the winter day better than if it was a greyscale picture.
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HI Val. It is an HDR processed shot from 3 colour pictures. HDR processing tends to over-saturate the colours and that did not work for this photo, so I reduced the saturation a lot in processing. I’m glad you liked how it came out.
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