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04-APR-2010 melbob

Quarry Trail

Melbourne

This is part of my bicycle track along which I ride
in an attempt to keep fit. Usually up to 30Km each day.
The difficult part is riding up the hills requiring the
very lowest gears and lots of huffing and puffing.

Canon PowerShot G10
1/50s f/2.8 at 6.1mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Canon Image Challenge13-Apr-2010 00:58
Beautiful again for b&w !! jano
alexeig07-Apr-2010 20:58
Compositionally, it is great. It can be made even more convincing by more contrast/serious subject in mids
Guest 06-Apr-2010 15:59
Nice use of leading lines here. I didn't see the original picture, but this one packs a lot of punch. - CameraShy09
Michael Kilpatrick05-Apr-2010 14:49
Should have mentioned - thanks for the directions. Regards, Michael
Michael Kilpatrick05-Apr-2010 13:57
I think it has more impact now. Regards, Michael
Daniel Bollag05-Apr-2010 13:37
Very nice b&w conversion, Bob! -- db.
Canon Image Challenge05-Apr-2010 12:43
It was a bit dark so I lightened it to bring out detail but as you suggest it could use more contrast. So... added a little more contrast to spread the pattern a little more.

This was a quarry until relatively recently but it closed and the local idiot council suggested using it as a 'low toxic' dump. After much protesting and legal challenges they decided to develop it as a park and housing development.

It is in Keilor East just opposite a Secondary College campus, completely surrounded by high density housing.
~ Regards Bob
Michael Kilpatrick05-Apr-2010 10:33
Where is this Bob? Looks like an interesting place to take a camera. By the way, this image looked quite "flat" to me and I had a look at it using Levels in Photoshop. There are some specks with brightness of around 224, but generally the brightest parts are under 200. I tried changing the white point to 195 and then lowering the mid range brightness, which gave it quite a different look. Was it your intention to limit the dynamic range? Regards, Michael