Woman on a fold up bicycle near the Torensluis in Amsterdam.
These bikes are used for two reasons:
1) You can take them on the train for free
2) Many houses are so small that there is no room to park inside and these can be stored more easy. Parking your bicycle outside in Amsterdam means you have to buy several during the year as they will be stolen a couple of times.
Shot at 70mm. I really hate it that I did not get the rear wheel in the frame, but from all the bicycle pics I took that day (100+) I think this one is the best. The light was so horribly harsh during most of the day. :(
Edits:
Capture NX
- Color Mode to II = Adobe RGB
- Tone Compensation to High Contrast
PS CS2
- cropped to a square (cut off the sides, top and bottom are original)
- Shadow and Highlight (mainly to create better contrast)
- Turned to b&w by throwing away the a&b channels in Lab mode
- Tritoned with greybrown Pantone colors and custom curves for each color used
- Contrast changes with USM
- Custom Curves with about 10 points and a really wiggly curve
- mild USM
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I find this photo very interesting, there seems to be a subtle dichotomy going on. Everthing about this photo is so very classic, this could easily of been taken a few decades ago. But then there is her bike with the tell-tale signs of modern day. I really do like the classic feel of this and it's a very good photo. Well done!
I'm guessing by the coble that this probably somewhere in Europe!?!
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