Peace Tower - B&W
GerryDavid
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Just wondered what everyone thought of this one. Anything in it you find distracting/annoying?
http://gerrydavid.smugmug.com/photos/33084679-L.jpg
Aperture: f/4.8
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 6mm *I think this is 35mm in terms of 35mm perspective*
Exposure Time: 1/680
Post production:
* rotate to straighten it
* cleanup on the picture to remove some unwanted items
* umm, some adjustment layer that helps you convert things into black and white, gives you more range or something like that, I cant thinkof the tecnical name for it right now.
* channel mixer set to monochrome and various adjustments on the sliders
* curves adjustment layer to increase the contrast
* I think I copied the image over to helicon noise filter, reduced the noise and brought it back into photoshop. If there is a plugin for ps for this, that would be handy.
* background adjustments. I dont want to say what it was, but if you can see anything that doesnt look natural, please let me know.
* copied previous layer *ctrl J* and applied USM, then brought the opacity down to something like 50%
Im going by just memory here so I may have left something out, like blending modes.
I dont really like how the picture is centered but I cant crop it and keep the 8x10 ratio. I wish I had more of the bottomof the tower in the picture but I would need a wide angle lense for that. :0)
Hmm, and just looking at it now, you can almost see a face in the sky on the top right, odd.
http://gerrydavid.smugmug.com/photos/33084679-L.jpg
Aperture: f/4.8
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 6mm *I think this is 35mm in terms of 35mm perspective*
Exposure Time: 1/680
Post production:
* rotate to straighten it
* cleanup on the picture to remove some unwanted items
* umm, some adjustment layer that helps you convert things into black and white, gives you more range or something like that, I cant thinkof the tecnical name for it right now.
* channel mixer set to monochrome and various adjustments on the sliders
* curves adjustment layer to increase the contrast
* I think I copied the image over to helicon noise filter, reduced the noise and brought it back into photoshop. If there is a plugin for ps for this, that would be handy.
* background adjustments. I dont want to say what it was, but if you can see anything that doesnt look natural, please let me know.
* copied previous layer *ctrl J* and applied USM, then brought the opacity down to something like 50%
Im going by just memory here so I may have left something out, like blending modes.
I dont really like how the picture is centered but I cant crop it and keep the 8x10 ratio. I wish I had more of the bottomof the tower in the picture but I would need a wide angle lense for that. :0)
Hmm, and just looking at it now, you can almost see a face in the sky on the top right, odd.
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I dont like posting full size files online so thats why Im posting a crop. It looks a bit soft, but it was enlarged from 3.2mp to an 8x10 @ 300dpi.
http://gerrydavid.smugmug.com/photos/33392944-L.jpg
And here is the original file, cropped a bit on the sides.
http://gerrydavid.smugmug.com/photos/33392941-L.jpg
I think the whispy clouds at the top of the building are a bit distracting in the B&W version. Looks like the color mixing you did enhanced these and this is reducing the contrast of the building against the background at the top where the lines of the building are leading the eyes to.
Erich