As is I'd go with the color version. When I look at a portrait I wan't to be drawn to the face before anything else. In your B&W version the face could use a little more fill light and/or highlights to draw your eye in, otherwise it wants to drift over to the brightness of the horizon in the background.
Today's sun rising over my home town, aka photographs of a sleep-deprived bored hobby photographer
Just resized, no messing with the colours or contrast or anything else. Used the "Sunset" colour profile under the assumption it'd work just as well on the sunrise. It kind of did, it's more vivid than Adobe RGB.
Unless you are 100% certain your audience is using a profile-enabled browser or image viewer through a good monitor, you should not release images profiled under Adobe RGB. Since it has a wider gamut that de-facto sRGB, profile-disabled browsers and viewers happily assume everything they display is un-profiled or under sRGB - and everything wider gamut that sRGB looks flat, unsaturated, usually tinted to red/magenta and generally like shiet.
AdobeRGB has its place but not under general image viewing on teh intertubz.
oh god.. I can't imagine what the Nikon feels like then lol
by the way, does yours have that weird.. metal.. but feels like felt material?
It's hard to explain, you have to feel those Sigma lenses to know what I'm talking about
I remember the first time I picked up my dad's 100-400mm 4-5.6 Canon, that.. man, it double proved how much I hate holding on to a Canon camera, I couldn't hold the camera for more than a few seconds without it hurting! And that was supporting majority of the lens with the tripod mount of course, those things hurt!
Yeah, that's the typical Sigma finish. It's on both the 10-20 and the 70-200. I like it, but I've heard horror stories of it peeling up after a year or two.
That beast surprisingly only weighs about 35 pounds!
Which.. imo sounds light for something of that size!
I think the problem with it really is the weight distribution lol, not so much the weight itself
I've had my 10-20 for a year and I haven't had any problems with it, but then again I'm not ravaging through a jungle with it every day either lol
I think it's safe to say if you keep it in the bag it came in and generally take care of it it will be just fine!
That's actually from my Soviet Helios-44K-4, which is a 58mm f/2 lens. Cost me a whopping $50 (which is actually kinda pricey given the M42 version regularly goes for $20 or less on eBay).
Haven't had a chance to try the Sigma on backlit stuff like that yet, but I will soon. I somehow doubt it'll have the same crazy bokeh--probably a lot more creamy, but we'll see.
Just got back from a 2 month volunteering trip in South Africa, at a monkey sanctuary. Had an awesome time . Here are a few shots I got from the sanctuary, Kruger National Park and a few other places: