Playing with B&W

mtopham

Hi All,

I have been playing around with b&w for a personal project I am working on. I think it's working out alright. Any thoughts on what I should keep an eye out for? Thanks for looking.

Mike

sweet caroline

Cute expression, good exposure, I like the shadows. Looking good to me!

Caroline

Mr. Quiet

Is it just me, or is the face a bit on the soft focus side?

D'Buggs

Is this image part of the personal project? This B&W conversion looks nice here but can go wrong in other scenerios... They can be tricky sometimes.

D'Buggs

Mr. Quiet wrote:

Is it just me, or is the face a bit on the soft focus side?

It is. Focus seems to be on the sweater/chest.

mtopham

Caroline - Thanks.

Quiet - The focus problem you see is the fact this is a 40 KB file. In the original file, eyelashes and peach fuzz on the face are very sharp.

D'Buggs - Yes, this will be one of four images in B&W. Were you implying that the recipe for one image conversion might not work for a different image?

Thanks again.

Mike

Mr. Quiet

Why did you compress it that much?

I usually compress mine to between 800 and 500KB....

D'Buggs

mtopham wrote:

D'Buggs - Yes, this will be one of four images in B&W. Were you implying that the recipe for one image conversion might not work for a different image?

Mike

Just be careful with contrast levels. In the boys sweater, the tonal separations are there but if you're doing a series that involves different lighting from image to image or different BG's, what ya did in one photo may not work so well in the next. Ect.....

Be sure to bring us into this project upon its completion.

BTW (seeing as this image is part of the project); did you do something to the BG along his left arm??? I thinks I see some clone brush bleed, bleeding onto his sweater.
Also, if this sitter were mine, I wouldn't want him wearing that sweater. IMO it overwhelms a visual connection with his face - But that's me and I don't know what your project really is... It may well be suitable.