Out and about in London with the 28mm f/1.8

[wintoid]

Nothing special here really, just a few shots from my first proper excursion with the Canon 28mm lens. I made lots of mistakes, learnt a few things, and took some pretty boring photos...

I'm annoyed that I messed up the framing of the London Eye. It's hard when your head is craned backwards to concentrate on the viewfinder. I'll remember that next time.

[wintoid]

I had difficulty deciding which edge should be vertical in this shot of Big Ben. Still don't really know the answer.

[wintoid]

Nothing special about this composition, just a regular touristy shot.

[wintoid]

This guy scares me for some reason. Perhaps the long arm...

This image is heavily compressed too.

[drisley]

Wintoid, I really like the first and second shots.
It looks like you exposed for the sky, and left the objects dark.
Do you have Photoshop CS or CS2? If so, try out the shadow/highlight tool to try to recover the dark areas. I think you could probably do almost the same with curves.
Using a "normal" lens can really be difficult I found out when I had my 28mm.

[wintoid]

I own C1Pro and Photoshop CS so I have the tools to sort it out, but these are just snapshots really, so I've done no PP on them at all. I also still have a colour management problem I think because these looked much brighter in Photoshop/C1 than they do in IE.

[drisley]

Isn't colour management a lot of fun?! ;)

[wintoid]

I've made some colour management changes and redeveloped the Big Ben shot. Does this look better to you?

[drisley]

Top drawer!
How do you like the images at 100%?

[wintoid]

Well generally they're good I think. I'll prattle on about that in the other thread, rather than reducing this picture thread to overly analytical talk.