Knight

[armando_m]

Saw this group of guys practicing 'Kendo' martial arts, they had outfits that reminded me of the templars

Shot on the street near 1pm
Asked for permission and quickly shot in program mode ,
which chose :
Exposure 1/500
Aperture f/11.0
ISO 200

Lens is 85mm

cropped a bit from the top and sides
converted to B&W
brought up the shadows in the visible parts of the face
played with light curves on the armor until I got some bits overexposed
around the main subject: darkened everything and added a 5 pixel gaussian blur

Comment or critiques will be appreciated



Thanks for looking!

[Greg McCary]

I really like it in B&W the guy over his left shoulder, right frame is distracting and could easily be cloned. The guy on the other side doesn't bother me near as much.

[armando_m]

Thanks Greg I'll try to clone it cleanly