Tough call on the crab options; maybe a sepia tone with that purple sand/cloud tone would be a perfect compromise? Beautiful shot either way. Gorgeous Helios OOF rendering above, great Lisbon window capture, airport tones/textures, and that's just this page! Hard to keep up.
mco_970 wrote:
Jae - love the second image in your set!
Dunno why, but when I look at this old car I hear a crackly old radio playing, "Going to the chapel and we're gonnnnna get ma-a-a-rried!". (I did check the trunk for a body, too...)
Re: color crab or not color crab: I'm split. The B&W is more dramatic, and also enhances the richness of the sand. The crab is much more interesting in color - the detail and shape jump out better.
Here are a couple I shot today with the new Micro Nikkor 55/2.8 AI-S, both at f/4 with my NEX-7. I noticed the somewhat cooler tones than most of my Minolta Rokkor lenses:
