Noice!

Tumbleweed coming from stage right is a nice touch must have been a Christmas cracker joke?

I know my colour vision is poor but it appears to have a greenish cast which I would have removed. Otherwise very good 🙂

Where the Full face helmets for show?

Meanwhile, up on Dartmoor….

yeah sofatester,the fullface lids are only for show

Really good pic, Jedi. To me, the greenishness that Simon is talking about looks like a natural stormy sky and you don’t need to fiddle with it. Only my opinion though.

as I said, my colour vision is compromised, but this is my version:

I believe it looks less atmospheric in yours Simon, sorry. Each to their own though. 🙂

I believe it looks less atmospheric in yours Simon

fair enough, I wasn’t happy with it either, as I’d have preffered an orangey sunsetty look, but there seemed to be too much green 🙁

monochrome?

Nah, not that either, lacks depth. I think the original is fine.

i dont **** with them

i have been trying recently to capture that stormy sky feel

Looks good, makes me want to ride!

Oh, it’s zero degrees and raining 😥

went for a singletrack ride in the woods today in the snow too

B+W might improve with some levels alteration and contrast boost.

i like the original best too – good use of the law of thirds and atmospheric.
monochromatic version of the first pic please simon f barnes and sharpen to maximum whilst you’re at it please.

i prefer the original as thats how it looked when i took it 🙂

and sharpen to maximum whilst you’re at it please.

not much point trying to sharpen an image already shrunk for the web…

I prefer stormy sky stuff in B&W too unless it’s already REALLY dark. Proper thunderhead clouds with sun on it from behind look great in colour. Otherwise B&W. But each to their own – there’s no right or wrong way for pics really.

Jedi

Hi – am I allowed to say I really like your photo but for some reason for me I can’t apply the word “moody” to it. Not too sure why and that isn’t a criticism of the photo which is great.

moody sky

plus,allowed?? you’re an adult 🙂 🙂

Just trying to be polite Jedi and not rude or anything.

heh heh 🙂 🙂 😛

It has a nice pensive quality about it, looks like it’s about to bucket it down and everyone is just pausing before bombing down some singletrack.
Damn seems like an age since I last managed to get out.

sort it out
ridin is good for the soul

Damn seems like an age since I last managed to get out.

I hardly have a choice about it. Live to ride, ride to live.

Nice. It looks like something has either just happend, or is just about to….

🙂

they are at the top near to the start of a pretty big northshore line

Great shot Jedi. Are you still “just” using your phone for pics?

yeah my k850i why?

That’s a really good shot, and I wouldn’t mess with the colour at all, no matter what sfb sez. And as for sharpening it up loads, absolutely not, I see far too much injuditious sharpening, which puts nasty white halos around things. All that’s needed is a little unsharp mask, but too few people know how to use it properly, and you rarely need it for web pics, only for print. iPhone pics need some USM, ‘cos they’re fairly ‘soft’, but most digital camera photo’s need it sparingly. Keep up the good work, I can’t fault that pic.

Just wondered, always impressed that you take pics like that on a phone.

cheers peeps
its my desktop as i love it

I have to say I agree with SFB about the colour cast – the original looks badly photoshopped to me due to the colouring.

its not touched

its not touched

great photo.

thanks again willigetaloginthistime