Any comments.....

[Paul_R]

Over the weekend I put a few pictures together in gallery as an experiment.

I'd be grateful if some of you would have a quick look at the pictures and make a few comments / suggestions. There's nothing spectacular there but I'd like to get some reaction.

The galery is at [url]www.photoruss.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/[/url]

Thanks

[Major Bloodnok]

I'll probably get drummed out of PistonHeads for saying this, but pictures of cars racing don't really do anything for me, so I'll leave those.

The headshots I like, especially the Ramirez one. The Surtees one is a nice picture, but the background is a bit distracting. I think for that one, I might try going black and white, increase the contrast a bit to emphasise the lines on his face and then maybe isolate him by blurring and lowering the contrast in the background.

OK, quick and dirty - I just tried this:



First off, I applied optikVerve Labs Virtual Photographer for the black/white look (settings "Classic" + "Antique", then I made a selection around the subject (if I was going to spend more time on it, I'd have done a better job - as it is, it's just a quick smart edge selection) and promoted it to a layer. On the background, I softened the edges of the selection, inverted it and applied a Gaussian blur (14 pixels for the image as is), then I lowered the contrast a bit (about 25% down).

OK, that was a 5 minute job and could be made better with more care taken, but it illustrates the idea, I think.

[james f esq]

i realy like the Read Arrows ones esp the tail fins and the repotage ones of the race like the driver in the mini the motorcross ones are a touch noisy and underexposed thow