black & white - opinions please....!!

[longers]

After a hot and dusty weekend with some smelly mates at Le Mans I spent this weekend in cleaner quieter surroundings with Mrs L on the North Norfolk coast. I've been playing with this pic and would appreciate your comments cos so far I've not converted many to B&W.....

Thanks,
Longers

[flameop]

nice.. my eye tends to go down the image rather than up though.. to bright at the bottom maybe? good composition though

[doodah]

it needs a black - contrast is slightly too soft...

[Gemm]

Yep, I agree, I'd prefer to see more contrast.

[David_G]

how did you convert to B&W? just use 'desaturate' in Photoshop? or erm, another method? it's a nice shot I think but would as Gemm has said beneift from some contrast and grain, make the dark tones look black and a bit of noise to the greys...

I don't know much (anything in fact haha) about B&W conversions but might start looking into it on the Canon forum.

[beano500]

...or tone it?

Sepia might look quite good?

[beano500]

[beano500]

There's a neat way to convert to B&W (if you use Ye Olde Photoshoppe) which allows you, through hue/saturation layers. It has the advantage of allowing you to keep going back and tweaking the conversion as if you had filters to play with


Here is a link to a Quicktime tutorial

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/Colo

WARNING!! The narrator is a complete pl0nk3r - and it's not his "patented" method - loads of people have worked this out. But it's done here at a Janet and John level and even I can follow how it works....


More at www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

[GetCarter]

possibly add a touch more realism?...

[beano500]

[mv6_stormer]

GetCarter said:

possibly add a touch more realism?...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Excellent, truly excellent

[dcw@pr]

LOL!

[GetCarter]

BTW Ian... sorry to inadvertantly hi-jack another of your threads!

[longers]

GetCarter said:

BTW Ian... sorry to inadvertantly hi-jack another of your threads!

No problem Steve - you made Mrs L laugh so much that Little Longers was nearly born 4 weeks early

[longers]

beano500 said:

There's a neat way to convert to B&W (if you use Ye Olde Photoshoppe) which allows you, through hue/saturation layers. It has the advantage of allowing you to keep going back and tweaking the conversion as if you had filters to play with


Here is a link to a Quicktime tutorial

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/Colo

WARNING!! The narrator is a complete pl0nk3r - and it's not his "patented" method - loads of people have worked this out. But it's done here at a Janet and John level and even I can follow how it works....


More at www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Thanks Beano

Longers

[V6GTO]

I think some "dodging and burning in the sky would help too.

Martin.