I've been experimenting with various B&W conversion techniques and would like you opinions as to how these appear. Any suggestions for improvement would be welcome.
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black mambaRegistered UsersPosts: 8,322Major grins
edited June 8, 2008
Jack....
I like the first shot. the second one doesn't hold much for me....I think it's the subject matter more than the effect. Glad to see you trying new approaches. I need to do the same thing.
Tom
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I like the first shot. the second one doesn't hold much for me....I think it's the subject matter more than the effect. Glad to see you trying new approaches. I need to do the same thing.
Tom
Yeah I'm kind of ambivalent toward #2 as well. The original color image was shot when I first got my DSLR and really had no clue about things like white balance etc. Plus the day was pretty dreary as I recall. It is so washed out I thought B&W might improve it.
Here's the original if anyone would would like to download it and do their own conversion. If it comes out good please post it here along with a brief account of your technique.
Yeah I'm kind of ambivalent toward #2 as well. The original color image was shot when I first got my DSLR and really had no clue about things like white balance etc. Plus the day was pretty dreary as I recall. It is so washed out I thought B&W might improve it.
Here's the original if anyone would would like to download it and do their own conversion. If it comes out good please post it here along with a brief account of your technique.
I like the color version much better, it gets my eye bouncing about and going "ooo the colours!"
Jack I liked your version of the BW on this photo, but you asked for someone to play with it so I couldn't refuse the "try it"
I messed alittle with the curves and selective color in Black and Red. Then I did a little Gradient fill over the water...just a faint tad. Darkened the shadows of the rocks...some contrast and that was it. I didn't know if you had done any sharpening on this, but I didn't.
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I like the first shot. the second one doesn't hold much for me....I think it's the subject matter more than the effect. Glad to see you trying new approaches. I need to do the same thing.
Tom
Here's the original if anyone would would like to download it and do their own conversion. If it comes out good please post it here along with a brief account of your technique.
Jack
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I like the color version much better, it gets my eye bouncing about and going "ooo the colours!"
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I messed alittle with the curves and selective color in Black and Red. Then I did a little Gradient fill over the water...just a faint tad. Darkened the shadows of the rocks...some contrast and that was it. I didn't know if you had done any sharpening on this, but I didn't.
I'm not good at BW, but love to play with it
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