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Wiren

Guys weekend last week... I was hoping I could escape for some good landscape work... when the weather was good (Friday), I couldn't drive due to a strong case of the Margaritas..... Saturday was so windy/rainy I couldn't get out and Sunday was leavetaking...... I snapped this 4 portrait stitch on the way out of town..... not my best work, but....meh.....:dunno

Stumblebum

I like it! The colors are sweet in sky and composition is nice! The hills suffer from lack of light but waves are glistening. Just like your last post that I recall, snow covered rocks somewhere in Oregon, the beautiful blue here might be worth sacrificing and explore b&w options. Brownish-red & gray or light-blue and gray-green are okay combinations, but b&w might work better for both sets. JMO.

Wiren

Stumblebum wrote: »

I like it! The colors are sweet in sky and composition is nice! The hills suffer from lack of light but waves are glistening. Just like your last post that I recall, snow covered rocks somewhere in Oregon, the beautiful blue here might be worth sacrificing and explore b&w options. Brownish-red & gray or light-blue and gray-green are okay combinations, but b&w might work better for both sets. JMO.

Yeah.... I actucally started out trying to work this in b/w.... the atmospheric haze left a hue that even in b/w I couldn't really get rid of.... I struggled with this for two days trying to get the b/w to work, and was never satisfied with it. This is a rare (for me) case of the colors adding more to the shot than I originally thought they would.... feel free to play around with it if you want... I really wanted this to work in b/w, i'm amenable to seeing what can be done in that regards.

Thanks for the reply......

Cornflake

I also like this. I played with it in Photoshop and couldn't come up with a good approach in black and white. Maybe it's not one of your best, but that could be said about 90 percent of all of our images.

JC

Wiren wrote: »

Yeah.... I actucally started out trying to work this in b/w.... the atmospheric haze left a hue that even in b/w I couldn't really get rid of.... I struggled with this for two days trying to get the b/w to work, and was never satisfied with it. This is a rare (for me) case of the colors adding more to the shot than I originally thought they would.... feel free to play around with it if you want... I really wanted this to work in b/w, i'm amenable to seeing what can be done in that regards.

Thanks for the reply......

Playing with it, a strong halo around the hills shows up, have you already applied a local contrast filter?


Did you try a B&W conversion based on the red channel?*

My best result playing around with it quickly came from a red channel B&W, and with a digital neutral gradient filter applied centered on the water line (instead of a local contrast filter), letting the hills go mostly to silhouette. I think it works well as B&W this way.

*or with a pseudo high IR filter if your program has one of those.

Wiren

JC wrote: »

Playing with it, a strong halo around the hills shows up, have you already applied a local contrast filter?


Did you try a B&W conversion based on the red channel?*

My best result playing around with it quickly came from a red channel B&W, and with a digital neutral gradient filter applied centered on the water line (instead of a local contrast filter), letting the hills go mostly to silhouette. I think it works well as B&W this way.

*or with a pseudo high IR filter if your program has one of those.

I used the paintbrush in LR to add clarity to the clouds and darken the highlights there, that's where your strong halo is derived from.

I did try a BW in the red channel and didn't come up with anything I liked.

Please, if you have a sample of the one you think works in BW, share, I would enjoy to see what you came up with....., I appreciate the time you took to play around and see what worked....

JC

Quick and dirty, but this is one possible direction.

This treatment would work better on the original file instead of being applied over the earlier contrast enhancement, and the mask edges need work (I have a trick where I use a mask created from an inverted image to handle complex transitions in a virtual neutral density filter that I didn't use here, but which would preserve the detail in the crashing waves).

Convert to B&W using the red channel. Stretched a sky layer in curves. Masked the stretched sky layer to isolate the stretch to the sky and hills. Brought a little bit of the foreground hills back from the unstretched layer. Cropped out the upper band of dark clouds that pulled my eye away from the action at the skyline.

I'd actually love to play around with this scene in native IR.

boco

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