#86 Toned B&W?

WernerG

La Compania, Cusco, Peru



Looking at other suggested entries in #86 I am assuming that toned B&W is OK?

sweetharmony

Works for me! I love how the people and cars give scale to the architecture....

PedalGirl

Theme is Monotone... they didn't way what tone it had to be. Great photo!

GretaPics

Really like the detail and sharpness and I agree with Sweetharmony about the people and cars providing architectural scale. GP

WernerG

Thank you for your comments. The entries so far seem to be un-toned. I just wanted to be sure this would be OK.

powder

Lucky you! looks very nice.

sapphire73

I had just worked on tone-mapping one of my shots when you posted this. Looks great!

billseye

Nice. Love the tone mapping and detail in the facade!

WernerG

Thank you all for your comments.

billseye, that was indeed the purpose of the tonemapping. The cathedral is a dark red sandstone and the detail work was lost in dark rust-colored tones in color and very dark gray tones in the conversion.

Merfman

Love the shot! Also, thanks for the thoughts on the processing!

mr peas

I like it. Is it possible to show a wider angle of the crop just to see what you took out when you cropped it the way it is now? Also, I'd try to crop it so that the building is level with the bottom of the image so that the lines on the bottom left hand side doesn't intersect at acute angle to the corner, if that makes any sense

WernerG

mr peas wrote: »

I like it. Is it possible to show a wider angle of the crop just to see what you took out when you cropped it the way it is now? Also, I'd try to crop it so that the building is level with the bottom of the image so that the lines on the bottom left hand side doesn't intersect at acute angle to the corner, if that makes any sense

I shot from the opposite corner of the square from an elevated sidewalk/patio area. That removed a lot of street level distractions. That's why there was only 5 deg of vertical perspective correction. There are steps down to the street in front of the camera with people's heads and more cars. Enough distractions to make it a street scene. That wasn't the intent. I can't rotate the image to square the bottom, that would screw up the verticals. I could do a horizontal transform in Lightroom which I just tried and it actually works, it squares up the sidewalk in front of the cathedral and cuts a bit off the top, but brings up some distracting heads that would have to be cloned; not my favorite activity.

Thanks for pointing that out. I noticed it but didn't really think about trying to do something about it. However, I should also point out that this image can't be entered in the monotone challenge. I read the rules in detail finally and realized that this doesn't meet the timeliness requirement. I apologize for wasting people's time.

mr peas

Its unfortunate you can't use it in the challenge, but its a great picture nonetheless. If I can make a suggestion to possibly clear the cars and people out. I've done that before to get a good architecture shot by itself either by using a strong ND filter and taking long exposures to remove extras in the scene or take several exposures, noting what should be removed or kept and creating a composite image containing all the integral pieces I want to keep and cloning out what I didn't want. If that makes sense.

WernerG

That's interesting, I've not heard of the ND filter technique but I have done the multiple shot technique. There is another way of doing that using panorama software. If the scene contains a large flat surface, and this one does, you can take the same shot from two different positions. You put all alignment control points on the flat wall and have the software align the images and compute the amount of camera motion. You make each aligned image a layer in PS and erase offending poles, light fixtures, and people that are in front of the plane of the wall, what was behind the obstacle comes through from the lower layer. The obstacles don't have to move, you do. Unlike most panoramas, here parallax is your friend.

Great ideas but they all take some planning. This was a tour, with tour guides and other tourists, walking the town. Shoot and run. Thanks for this discussion, with a little planning I could probably do some of this stuff on in a tour environment.