Derailleur

[edG]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5084488673_42e2f43db9_z.jpg

noticed the condition of this derailleur mechanism and thought it might make a good B&W study

[Iguanasan]

You were right It's very cool.

[Bambi]

I love the tones here. B&W was a great choice. NOw what's a derailleur?

[Iguanasan]

I love the tones here. B&W was a great choice. NOw what's a derailleur?

It's the mechanism on a bike with gears that moves the chain up and down the different size sprockets when you adjust the gear lever. Does that make sense?

[edG]

Cheers Iggy and Bambi

[Marko]

Quite an interesting image ed, good comp here. I could offer some PP advice if you like that i think would make this sing louder. lemme know.

[edG]

Would be happy to have any input that could improve what I do, thanks for offering!!

[Marko]

Sure Ed - The bright diagonal line under the gear (where the brand name Skylark is) is competing too hard with the derailleur itself due to brightness. Tone it down through burning/cloning etc and the image will sing louder imo. The top part of the metal where skylark is written also looks bright on my monitor and I'd also tone that down by 10-20% as well. Hope that helps - marko

[edG]

Thanks for the tips Marko. Tried to do as recommended - is this what you meant:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5094137401_7b8d742114_z.jpg

[Bambi]

I don't know if it was what Marko had in mind, but I think it's an improvement :)

[edG]

woops - don't know how I missed the "bright diagaonal line under the gear", must have been a longer day at work than I thought. I did however work on the "Skylark" part. Thanks Bambi for the subtle clue.

[Marko]

These kinds of shots are very personal in processing but this is actually only partially what i meant. Let me say this, the redo is also good and it makes it more concrete as to what this is...but it's much flatter/muddier/greyer than version one.
Basically i wanted you to leave the right side of the photo alone and only fill in/reduce the brightness issues on the left side and you've done a decent job with that. i really liked the higher contrast of version one except for the parts that were too blown out on the left side.

Hope that helps - Thx! marko

[edG]

Very much so, thanks again ( sorry for late reply, been out of town on a job and worked 50 hours in 4 days, then taught a full day of health and safety at the union hall today)