My 50 and me.

Here is a shot I did with my 5D and 50 1.4. The serenity of the lady reading her paper looked so peaceful to me.
I posted in B/w forum also, so hope it's ok to double post here.

This is outside my normal subject area so I'm looking for any and all comment and critiques.

Hinson

I can see that there is someone sitting on the bench but the person is too small to see. Since you wanted to capture the serenity surrounding her I think you should have been a bit closer. I was drawn to the chain on the edge of the path.

very nice shot, the 50 1.4 is the lens that i use the most.

May I ask you how you did your BW convertion? Theres various ways to achieve it and people do it very differently.

I use the black and white tool in Cs3 and I really like it but im always open to new options!

It's all POV to me. I rally like the B&W scheme, but can hardly discern the person in the exposure. I too, am drawn to the curved walk and chain.

Bea and jtull, thanks for the feed back and I'm inclined to agree with you. I printed it 14x11 and when I look at the print, it just doesn't grab me. not sure if I can crop in any closer without really degrading. This is about a 50% crop already. I'll recrop and see what happens.

DJ, thanks also. As for the conversion. I almost always use the channel mixer, choosing the channel that gives the best version of what I'm looking for. Then convert to grayscale and use levels/brightness-contrast to tweak.

Hinson

Nice! I need a 50.