B&W try

[tiziano]

Experimenting....

Critics, comments, advises and edits most welcome. Thanks!

[wstein]

In the first image, what is your subject that you are trying to emphasize? Is it the big metal structure? The child on the swing or the empty swing? Or the frame of the swing set?

Since the child's back is turned to the camera, I'm going to assume that it isn't the child. In this particular image you have motion, why not use it in the image instead of freezing it? Let's pretend that you had shot this image with a really long exposure with the focus weighted on the metal structure. Now you have the two swings in a blurring trail and the metal structure completely in focus. If you want to get all "artsy" you could even say something like the environment is changing around the fixtures. I think this particular image setting has a lot of potential, especially if it were used in a series and telling a story about a particular area (which it is). I will make a note that motion isn't for everyone. However, this is an urban setting so it may work well.

The second image has a nice range of tones, but I think the trees in the foreground throw it off for me. To me, the subject matter on the other side of the river looks way more interesting. I'm sure you are pretty limited as to where you can stand near the river. Out of the two as they are, I like this image more. But I like the first image's potential more, since to me it seems more interesting.

As a viewer, I'd also like to see some of the different pieces in the pictures singled out and profiled. Like maybe just the bridge across the river or the metal structure or one of the buildings. Each one of those items has a story to tell.

Looks like you have some neat things around you. I'm jealous. :P I have corn, corn and more corn in the summer and in the winter, very empty and desolate fields. Keep 'em coming! :-)

[tiziano]

Hi Wstein,

Thanks for your detailed examination. Now that you make me noticing some things, I fully agree on what you said.

These pictures belong to a series which theme is the river Tevere. In the first one, the subject was supposed to be all the content of the swing, that I wanted to be a frame. Even the metal structure located outside of the swing, it was part of the subject. The swing should have been a separator between the children area and the external world, trasmitting even a sense of motion... well, I should have used a longer time. In the other similar picture, that I'm attaching below, the sense of motion should have come from both the swing and the running child...
Well, I believe I was trying to achieve to much. Anyway, at least I know now, from the fedbacks I got, that this process for B&W conversion it's working. I have to improve on the Photography side!:o
Please give a look at the other images I'm posting.
Two are here:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=116887
Here below two more.

Thanks

[tiziano]

And two more: