I want to ride my bicycle!

[lerabu]

Hi all!

The family went for a walk in the city centre today, it was a beautiful sunny day and what better than to bring your camera with you

I am specifically looking at feedback for:
- B&W conversion
- Compsition
- Is the eye caught by the wheel to the right straightaway?
- Can you feel the street?
- Any other comments you may have!

EXIF
Camera Nikon D80
Exposure 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture f/3.5
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias -2/3 EV
Aperture Priority
Creator Tool Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.3
Lens 18.0-105.0 mm f/3.5-5.6

[LinaInKorea]

I like it.. but maybe I'm biased: this reminds me of a photo I took about a week ago.


Around Korea-6.jpg by linainkorea, on Flickr

Yours is much better. I'm still a total newb, and I wish I had taken it at a different angle.

I wonder what yours looks like in color?

[lerabu]

Hey!

Thank you for the kind comment!

I like your shot! It's full of colours and you made a nice job of giving it a dynamic tilt to the right bottom and thus used the diagnoal of the frame to make the eye wander in the picture!

The shot I took wasn't so great for colours first of all because the bikes weren't of such nice colours like yours, they were old and shabby, and the dynamic range of the scene was really wide which made it difficult to get the right exposure with the camera. The colour shot is attached to this post at the bottom.

I decided to therefore go for black and white when I saw the scene in front of me and to try to get a mood in the shot with the BW treatment and by using the circle shapes of the wheels to lead the eye through the scene.

One thing I learned, and which you will find written everywhere is to try to shoot from a different perspecitve than that from which you see things in your daily life.

I am also new, started photographing about a year and a half ago, there is only one advice: read, read, read, shoot, shoot, shoot, look at what you did, take a learning from it, rinse, repeat!