Nice tones and I like the strain made by the boy running out the frame. Regards.

Fantastic - and I see a yellow tint not pink ;-D

It is so light and still full of details. I like the composition and the painting look.

Great high key image. I like the warm, light, colors!

Love it.

Departures from the comfort zone are always welcome - I like it. Feels a little 'illustrated' as opposed to 'photographic', but the minimalism helps make it work.

Fine treatment, Dave: has a 'Wash-drawing' quality which is more sympathetic & naturalistic than some of your more recent output. I think you should explore this avenue...

Interesting you see this as a departure - as it first opened I though this could only be a chromasia image.

And as already stated I also like the warm feel. Dreamy.

Oh yeah. But I'm confused why you would call this a departure. Nice tension in his gait, posture, windblown jacket and ripples on water. Good contrast between his determined posture and the thinness of his (?) calves/youth. Not to mention he versus the soft landscape. :)

Great contrast between the subject and the background. I'm with some of the others in that it still maintains your style.

It feels very "vintage" to me. I like it a lot!

Its definately a departure from the recent Chromasia style, buts its definately reminisent of 'a' style of yours, maybe quite some time ago. Really like it though, the framing is great.

I like this image a lot, Dave. It certainly carries your signature in the way it is processed. Great tones and atmosphere.
If it's possible, I would be very happy to get some details about the processing.

An absolutely beautiful image with a great dream-like quality. I love the tones and the ripples in the water that the runner has left behind him. However.... I can't quite put my finger on it, but I would like to see the photo flipped 180-degrees horizontally so that the figure is running out of right hand side of the image. This sounds daft, but it feels to me as if he's running across the image the `wrong` way! Maybe it's something to do with the way that your eyes are used to scanning from the left to the right (like when you read)? Maybe I'm cracking up!

Great image. I'm constantly impressed by your ability to extract such a subtle tonal range from your images without them looking flat. I continually try to get over my apparent lifetime compulsion to hit the blacks hard in post, but fail every time.

really nice high-key image. I like the breaking of normal convention where space should be left ahead of the subject rather than behind. The beach looks endless!

Nice one Dave

Great tones. Excellent! How was this accomplished? Was this done through LAB or RGB? Was it desaturated to B&W and then the pink tones were introduced? If I had to refer to one of your tutorials, which one would it be?

Thanks all.

kate: I guess I meant that it wasn't as striking/vibrant as some of my recent stuff.

Chris: it's interesting that you should say that because it was that way round originally. The reason I flipped it though, is for exactly the reason you mentioned - i.e. We scan from left to right (in the West at least). This way, you run into him, you're not running with him.

Al: RAW Developer has a Curves tool that includes the LAB curves and the settings I used in this instance were as follows:

The best tutorial to look at, which will explain these Curves, is LAB Color mode: part two, but you could also take a look at part one too.

Thanks for explaining this Dave. I've actually just started reading the LAB part two tutorial as of yesterday. Lots of new concepts.. I think I'm getting the hang of it. I've looked at the LAB curve you've posted and I think I've got the idea... Well at least starting to recognize it.. It looks like th midpoint for the "b" curve has been shifted slightly to alter the "neutral tones" as you mentioned in the tutorial...

Love the sense of time being paused in this shot. Great stuff!

Al: you're on the right track. The 'a' Curve has been flattened - this completely desaturates any red or green tones in the image - while the 'b' Curve does two things. First, because the bottom-left point has been dragged to the top the blue tones in the image have been remapped to yellow. Second, as you pointed out, the mid-point has been moved - this adds a yellow cast to the image.

A very gentle colour scheme for this image.

Very cool. I like the subtle toning. Great job.

I love the process !

almost seems a little burnt out, but i think it is just in contrast to your normal tactile style.

there is something really appeasing about it. i would love to use it in a graphic design project for something along the lines of capturing your youth.... as it somewhat looks like a vague memory.

Indeed a different style than usaual. I like the composition in cobination with the endless beach. Well done!