Smith Rock Archive

So I'm digging into my archives since I haven't been out lately and this one came up. I had never done anything with this, but decided to play with CS3 a bit and convert to b&w and see how it came out. I'm fairly happy with it.

Canon 20D
Sigma 28-74 f2.8 lens at f8 and 38mm
1/1250 second ISO 400 (hand held)

Ryan,
Hey...just a couple of thoughts here. I see some noise in the sky, and wish the "rock" was a tad sharper. I'm sure it would make a nice print.

I did a pretty crappy job converting this for the web. It's sharper and less noisy than it looks here. I was trying a new method and it appears I didn't do it very well. So, putting aside the crappy web presentation here, would a sharp, noise free photograph of this scene appeal to anyone?

I think that one cannot appreciate this scene on the web. I think it would be awesome as a print though.

I agree. Minus the noise in the sky a larger print in the hand would probably be very nice. You might want to use some sort of lens correction also to fix the slight bow you see across the ground plane where the rock hits the ground. I wouldn't think the lens you used would do that ?

I'm wondering if the bow in the ground is actually the lay of the land there and not a lens distortion. I've never experienced any lens correction issues with this lens.

Maybe it's just my monitor, but when I look at this it doesn't look noisy or unsharp at all. I really like your b/w conversion and your composition, Ryan. I also think that the bowing is not lens distortion but rather the lay of the land.

Composition is a little too strait-forward for my taste. 400 ISO would be too high to ask for a noise-free print.