"Lake Approach"

Khaos

EF-S 10-22, f/11.0, 1/200, ISO 400

STLMach1

Wow, Keith! I really like this capture! Very bold and dramatic.

Cool stuff,
Michael

JenGrace

I love the lighting!

lifesdisciple

Yeah, I second Jen. The lighting is fantastic. Really captures your eye. Great shot.

CMaster

Man, fantastic shot! That's a beautiful B&W.

Swartzy

Great range Keith
Is this one shot or layered? I love how you get such a tonal range of shadow/highlights...even the one in Sam's thread. Really cool....tell us your secret as I'm want to get some of those.

mgd_harvey

Great shot!

Lovely tolanl range and I love the feeling of peeking through the trees to the lake

Carbon Based

You've done an excelnt job on the highlights, but the shadows are TOO black. Can you open them up abit?

Khaos

Swartzy wrote:

Is this one shot or layered? I love how you get such a tonal range of shadow/highlights...even the one in Sam's thread. Really cool....tell us your secret as I'm want to get some of those.

One shot.

I used the channel mixer on both shots. If you have a deep color blue and or green and use the red channel in monochrome on the channel mixer you can get yourself some white greens and black blues. I also play with the contrast a lot on my b&w conversions as well as saturating certain colors before converting. It's more a feeling that I get from doing many conversions over time as opposed to a strict process.

Khaos

Carbon Based wrote:

You've done an excelnt job on the highlights, but the shadows are TOO black. Can you open them up abit?

I can, but I won't. The extreme contrast between the two was done on purpose.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Awais Yaqub

beautiful photo loved it

Seneca

Breath-taking

chulium

The contrast is wowing me. The black and white is the perfect effect. Very well done!