Egill,
wonderful picts - they made my day, thanks for sharing.
Great b/w conversion, too. May you share your workflow / camera combo?
Cheers
jørn
Thank you Jørn,
These were all made with my Nikon D700, grate camera! My first Nikon, and not my last, I used to be a hardcore Canon man. I only have two lenses for it now, the 50 mm 1.4 and the 85 mm 1.8. I had to make nearly all the shots from my hip or mid section, the people there on the streets were not to keep on being photographed...
Regarding workflow, since this is a high contrast sunny scene, I developed the photos two times, one for shadow detail and one for highlight, then blend them manually with layer masks. Then its basically just dodge and burn with as few curves layers and as smooth mask's as possible.
Regards,
Egill Bjarki