3rd Beach, Washington

bryanj87

Motivated by the incredible shots of Olympic from our own Ron Coscorrosa, I went back through my images from my trip there last year. (I was really looking for more Bzdula beam images, but couldn't find any more keepers). I ended up finding my shots from Third Beach, where it was very overcast and misty. These type of shots lend themselves nicely to black and white. Comments and suggestions welcomed. Thanks for looking!

1.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/3219533204_974dab8f35_o.jpg&quot; width="1000" height="736" alt="PNW HDR 11" />

2.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3371/3219533156_72b3e45a25_o.jpg&quot; width="1000" height="736" alt="PNW HDR 10" />

3.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3403/3213701055_5c7b1f465a_o.jpg&quot; width="626" height="1000" alt="PNW HDR 09" />

Arvan

all 3 of them are very very good photos. I just love the processing!

Blinkings

Beautiful stunning work, and I totally agree that they look super in B+W.

bryanj87

Thanks folks!

Awais Yaqub

These are amazing !

shniks

Bryan- I just love #1 and #3 (more partial towards #3). Very well done. It's great that you chose B&W (my fave medium).


Cheers,

coscorrosa

Not to be confused with Beach 3 which is a different beach in Olympic National Park...

These are great! You're right, they really do lend themselves to B&W. And your processing is awesome. What are you doing? I need to steal, er, borrow some of your techniques for B&W conversion, my B&W's always end up lacking punch and drama, which these shots all have great quantities of.

My favorite is probably the first but all three are very good.

kdog

Cool shots. I like the lines and clouds in #3. Wouldn't mind seeing what these looked like in color too.

Cheers,
-joel

DRT-Maverick

Amazing detail and beauty in each of those photographs.

dlplumer

Beautiful set. Great conversion work.

bryanj87

Thanks everyone. I don't think my color versions will see the light of day, they are really flat and drab. But maybe just for a before and after thing I'd post them.

My processing on these varied slightly, but mainly focuses around the Nik Silver Efx Pro plugin for Photoshop. They were all first tonemapped in Photomatix. I then brought them into CS4 and did just minor adjustments in Camera Raw. I tihnk I used the new Graduated filter on the sky on one or two of them. Then I run them through Nik Silver, cranking the structure and contrast settings and adding a few control points. I really can't say enough about that plugin for black and white conversion. Most of the stuff I've been posting in b/w here lately (and in my flickr stream) were shots I considered junk, until I ran them through Nik Silver.

NeilL

Bryan, I just came from looking at Ron's great pics, and yours are another and equally breathtaking perspective. Thanks for the techniques info! Yes, I have that Nik SW also, though have used it only little yet, but like you I am very impressed with it

Neil

coscorrosa

bryanj87 wrote:

Thanks everyone. I don't think my color versions will see the light of day, they are really flat and drab. But maybe just for a before and after thing I'd post them.

My processing on these varied slightly, but mainly focuses around the Nik Silver Efx Pro plugin for Photoshop. They were all first tonemapped in Photomatix. I then brought them into CS4 and did just minor adjustments in Camera Raw. I tihnk I used the new Graduated filter on the sky on one or two of them. Then I run them through Nik Silver, cranking the structure and contrast settings and adding a few control points. I really can't say enough about that plugin for black and white conversion. Most of the stuff I've been posting in b/w here lately (and in my flickr stream) were shots I considered junk, until I ran them through Nik Silver.

Just what I need, another expensive piece of software

But your photos/conversions have convinced me it's a worthwhile tool to have, so I'm going to try it out for sure.