Acadia Black & White attempts

cmkultradome

Still weeding thru the Shootout photos and came across two that I thought might look nice in black & white. I don't really know the specifics about converting a photo to B&W but I played around in Photoshop with the black & white sliders and this was what I came up with. I didn't know about converting a sunrise photo into b&w but I think I like it better. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

Stephanie

#1 Sunrise at Boulder Beach


#1 converted



#2 Early morning at Little Hunter's Beach




#2 converted

brvheart

I prefer color in both shots. I am one of the odd ones that loves B&W - but I think that color works best here.

dlplumer

I like them all Stephanie, and 2 might be my favorite. Good conversion imo.

alexf

I love and do a lot of B&W but in this case I prefer the color versions a tad more. Nice shots.

canon400d

alexf wrote:

I love and do a lot of B&W but in this case I prefer the color versions a tad more. Nice shots.

Great shots but to be honest I certainly prefer looking at the colour shots.
Regards
Bob

dkoyanagi

#1. The round stones in the foreground looks quite good in b&w. However, the sky and the water could use a little more contrast to bring out the details. The island, on the other hand, needs to be lightened up to bring out the details there.

#2. I really like the pink and cyan hues in the color photo. However, these colors are getting converted to roughly the same shade of gray in the b&w photo. You want to convert the photo to maximize the difference of the pink and cyan. Fortunately red and cyan are opposite colors in RGB. The easiest way to maximize the difference in b&w is to use the channel mixer conversion method and go heavy on the red channel. This will turn the pink rocks into a lighter shade of gray, and the blue rocks into a darker shade of gray.