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The Ride II - Colour

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I mentioned that I would do a colour version of The Ride. As it happened the colour version needed a different edit to the BW version, so I did this again from the original .dng file.

Here are a few of my thoughts about the construction of the image, in terms of the compositional elements, which is probably the are of photography I concentrate on. It's an example of the thinking that I do with any image I take, and how that effects the post-processing, crop and clean up before I post. :)

Whilst there is visual interest in the details of the sky and landscape, it is all about the biker, and the feeling of space and freedom that the culture of being a biker is all about. The compositional elements are tonally based rather than subject based, using the lighter diagonal from upper left to lower right to draw the esy away from the biker, and then back again, juxtaposed against the more threatening, darker, diagonal from lower left to upper right, reinforced by the line of the hill. The dominant, leading lines of the hill and the left verge of the road also lead the eye through the landscape to the biker. The lower third, horizontal line created by the band of clouds approximately level with the crest are also an important visual lead in, as is the fence line, which, again, is on the golden section. There's also a band of clouds at about the upper third horizontal, and a line of lighter tones vertically on the left third, all there to create a more harmonious composition that having the subject so close to the edge of the frame would ordinarily allow. Of course, having him there, and riding off the edge of the frame also enhances the concepts and ideals of freedom and wide open spaces that the biker culture delights in. There is also a tension between that freedom and the love of the open road and the threatening skies that bikers aren't so fond of. I like to leave a viewer with a few questions, because that encourages ongoing interest in an image, and hopefully the viewer will be wondering if he made it home without heinously low-siding on a wet patch of road, or near hypothermic from being stormed on, and perhaps wondering what the ride was like and what he saw along the way (other than a couple of weird photographers by the side of this dirt road in the middle of nowhere!).


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Image size
1100x714px 349.68 KB
Make
PENTAX
Model
PENTAX K20D
Shutter Speed
1/500 second
Aperture
F/8.0
Focal Length
50 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
May 1, 2009, 1:36:24 PM
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CorazondeDios's avatar
:star::star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

skyrider of the storm -- this biker at the hill's summit will soon soar the thunderous skies surrounding him, charged with as much power as the billowing grey clouds he is heading for.

the fence looks more like it is preventing the tame ground from ganing admittance to the rocky unpaved stage of the road warrior as he catapults to its top and onward into the sky.

Your watermark ripples and looks more like a portal into the awesome celestial dimension -- its perfeclty done and is so subtle that it seems a part of the composition itself.

Awesome capture. Awesome editing. Brilliant work.