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by Ryan Biffard
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Oct 11 2003 Ryan Biffard

Climbers *
by Ryan Biffard

Canmore, Canada

To me climbing is about being alone with the rock, and being together with my partner.. afer all you are putting your life in your partners hands.

Canon EOS 10D ,Sigma 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 ASP
green chanel mixed with red for climber / blue for belayer. Adjusted contrast / brighntess hide exif
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Biff 20-Oct-2003 21:22
Thanks for your comments! .. I just played with the colour image and I can see what you mean, it does make for a more interesting photo, but to me the colour image doesn't give as strong of impression of being alone. Maybe I am biased because I am a rockclimber.. but I like the texture of the rock, and to me the diagonal line is more interesting than the climbers :)
Olaf.dk 19-Oct-2003 18:50
Definitely better in color, definitely and no doubt about it! – Olaf
Guest 19-Oct-2003 13:37
To be honest, I prefer the colour - the rocks are virtually b/w anyway, and the red and blue colour of the clothing makes a good highlight (I think).
All I would have done with the colour one was tweaked the brightness and contrast (as I think you have done here) to darken the rocks.
I would have then cropped the right by about 20% or so, just so that the climbers are closer the the left third.
The steps on the left already act as a good lead-in to the lower climber. The diagonal line on the right actually leads away from them which I don't think is desirable.

Just my opinion, obviously... It's certainly a dramatic image.
Phil M
Biff 17-Oct-2003 19:38
The colour image looks boring, you can see one of them on my websitehttp://www.biffard.com/climbing/oct11/img_3565.htm
I wanted to set a feeling of being alone for this photo (since that is the theme of this challenge). By aligning the climbers in the left of the frame, and allowing the lines of the rock to lead the viewers eye to the right I felt that it would give more of an impression of being alone in a sea of rock. I feel that the domanint diagonal lines of the rock form an interesting composition, and wanted divide the frame up into thirds diagonally.

Let me know what you think of the colour image, and what I just said about the composition, Thanks.
Guest 17-Oct-2003 10:16
That's very dramatic, but I wonder if it might have been better in colour?
Also, you have the climbers so far to the left, I would suggest either a tighter crop to bring the closer to the thirds, or (at the time) shooting more tot the left to keep the sense of space, but again, moving them to the third.

Phil M