On 6/19/05, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spent last week with some friends on a canal boat, touring the > north-west of England at walking pace. Got a few photos I liked; this > is one of bridge 164 on the Trent & Mersey canal: > > http://www.elvum.net/gallery/paw/bridge164 > > *istDS @ ISO 400; Tamron AF 28-200/3.8-5.6 @ f9. Raw converted in > Bibble; tweaked for contrast and saturation in PSP. > > I quite like this lens on the DS - it needs a fair amount of light, and > I've had occasional colour fringes on high-contrast edges, but it covers > a good range of focal lengths, performs perfectly adequately and > minimises the number of dust-ingesting lens changes I need to perform... > > Anyway, comments and criticism of any description solicited. :-)
I kind of like the "washed out" look. Just me, I guess. Except the sky. That's too washed out, even for me... <vbg> The composition is lovely. With the "washed out look", it takes on a somewhat ethereal and dream-like look, to my eyes. I quite like it. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson