Very fine B&W portraits. Got me wondering about the lens, so I looked at the exifs. Looks like you kept zooming in more, true? B.D. stresses getting close with a wide lens, but I love the bokah with longer focal lengths that you are getting in the portrait of the woman.
The first one looks like it is probably a natural for my favorite B&W conversion technique to get a more dramatic sky. Have you tried this? You may need to use a pretty aggressive surface blur on the red layer.
Very fine B&W portraits. Got me wondering about the lens, so I looked at the exifs. Looks like you kept zooming in more, true? B.D. stresses getting close with a wide lens, but I love the bokah with longer focal lengths that you are getting in the portrait of the woman.
The first one looks like it is probably a natural for my favorite B&W conversion technique to get a more dramatic sky. Have you tried this? You may need to use a pretty aggressive surface blur on the red layer.
#1, #2, #3 shot with Nikon D80 + 18-70mm lens
The other ones shot with D300 + 80-400VR which I was using for flight shots.
I'll study and try your method. These (B&W) were done with Silver Efex Pro, but I sometimes do B&W in CNX2 myself by blending.
I'll study and try your method. These (B&W) were done with Silver Efex Pro, but I sometimes do B&W in CNX2 myself by blending.
I'm thinking #1 might be a textbook case for layering red over green in darken mode. I'm trying to pull together examples for a B&W workflow tutorial. Would you like to let me see what I can do with it starting from raw (or color jpeg, for that matter.)
I'm thinking #1 might be a textbook case for layering red over green in darken mode. I'm trying to pull together examples for a B&W workflow tutorial. Would you like to let me see what I can do with it starting from raw (or color jpeg, for that matter.)
Sure. Here's a color version. I'd like to see your take on it and learn something.
It's unfortunate that this has become a technical discussion, with little consideration of the, um, photographs.
This is a nice collection of casual portraits, and you've done a very solid job of dealing with what was obviously hideous lighting conditions. But...Only one of these images says "airshow" to me, and that's the last one - a very nice shot. (I realize that there are parts of planes out of focus in the background in a couple other shots, but...) Anyway, if the idea is to show that these are people at an airshow, or next time a dog show , I'd go for greater depth of field.:D
Thanks for the comments. I did not got for the airshow theme but for the candids. It happened to be an airshow. Could've been anything else, I did not care.
As per the wider angle, it was very crowded. Next to to impossible to isolate a person. In #1 I was so close I could almost touch him. And yes, the light was bad that day. I had to throw many of my flight shots away due to poor lighting conditions. Still working on processing a few keepers.
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The first one looks like it is probably a natural for my favorite B&W conversion technique to get a more dramatic sky. Have you tried this? You may need to use a pretty aggressive surface blur on the red layer.
#1, #2, #3 shot with Nikon D80 + 18-70mm lens
The other ones shot with D300 + 80-400VR which I was using for flight shots.
I'll study and try your method. These (B&W) were done with Silver Efex Pro, but I sometimes do B&W in CNX2 myself by blending.
Nikon D700, D300, D80 and assorted glass, old and new.
I'm thinking #1 might be a textbook case for layering red over green in darken mode. I'm trying to pull together examples for a B&W workflow tutorial. Would you like to let me see what I can do with it starting from raw (or color jpeg, for that matter.)
Nikon D700, D300, D80 and assorted glass, old and new.
I started a thread in the Finishing School to show examples of my B&W workflow and this is the first example.
Nikon D700, D300, D80 and assorted glass, old and new.
It's unfortunate that this has become a technical discussion, with little consideration of the, um, photographs.
This is a nice collection of casual portraits, and you've done a very solid job of dealing with what was obviously hideous lighting conditions. But...Only one of these images says "airshow" to me, and that's the last one - a very nice shot. (I realize that there are parts of planes out of focus in the background in a couple other shots, but...) Anyway, if the idea is to show that these are people at an airshow, or next time a dog show
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
As per the wider angle, it was very crowded. Next to to impossible to isolate a person. In #1 I was so close I could almost touch him. And yes, the light was bad that day. I had to throw many of my flight shots away due to poor lighting conditions. Still working on processing a few keepers.
Nikon D700, D300, D80 and assorted glass, old and new.