Give Me A Hand Please!

Jeff Fillmore

Or Two...



Taken at the beach earlier tonight (I liked it better than the sunset pics)

Ted Szukalski

What a great photo but it has two serious flaws:
1. I did not take it
2. On a serious note: try a black and white conversion. It's awsome

Rhuarc

Really like this shot. The only thing that is distracting to me is the bright pink at the bottom. Maybe a black and white conversion would tone this down, or you could always use a mask and try to get those pinks down a little. Great shot though!

pete w

Stop Biting those nails..hehe
I like it very unusual.

System

neat shot-

I agree with ted-

a bw would be neat-

Jeff Fillmore

Thanks guys- I tried a b&w of it last night but it game out looking less like nice beach sand and more like grubby homeless-kid hands or something. Also- her arms were lost in the light colored shirt. May have been my conversion. I will probably try again tonight- if anyone else feels like having a go at it I'd love to see it.

BenA2

gdad wrote:

Thanks guys- I tried a b&w of it last night but it game out looking less like nice beach sand and more like grubby homeless-kid hands or something. Also- her arms were lost in the light colored shirt. May have been my conversion. I will probably try again tonight- if anyone else feels like having a go at it I'd love to see it.

I had a go at the B&W conversion, primarily to address the problem you had with the shirt blending in with the arm. I did my conversion in Lirghtroom, and the key to getting contrast between the arm and the shirt was boosting the blue. In PS, you could do this with the channel mixer by increasing the amount in the blue channel and decreasing red. While I like how that part turned out, I don't know if my sand is as subtle as you might like beach sand to look.



Oh, and I added a little vignetting to taste.

Cool shot, thanks for posting.

RogersDA

gdad wrote:

Thanks guys- if anyone else feels like having a go at it I'd love to see it.

Here's my go...

RogersDA

Or even this which gives a tighter crop.

imax

Here's a go




have a great morning


joe

NicoleB

WOW - the original's already great!
The b/w gives mw goose-bumps!

Jeff Fillmore

Alrighty- All are good. I love seeing different peoples B&W vesions. Here's mine.

xris

RogersDA wrote:

Or even this which gives a tighter crop.

Wow! What a great example of what can be done with a good pic! For the record, I like the "tighter crop" version. It really draws the attention and makes you look. Would have been a great entry for the Human Body challenge a few whiles ago!!

System

hey jeff-

a neat shot-

thought I'd have a go at the bw-

I guess mine's dark, which makes it dark-

RogersDA

Jeff,

Your version is not bad at all.

B&W is hard to do, and even harder to get something that pleases the photographer (which, after all, is what matters). There are so many different ways to tweak that even famous B&W photographers such as Ansel Adams would spend days if not weeks adjusting even the smallest parts of his pictures. Keep going!!

DavidS

I love the lighting and the texture.

destes

The originals were great, and I really like the B&W RogersDA did. Although myself, I like the first one, not the tighter cropped one. That's just me though.