>http://homepage.mac.com/godders/191800-g2.jpg Interesting. How?
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30. august 2005 16:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: First attemt on B&W conversion > > On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:15 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > > > ... You have seen the picture before. > > This time I've tried a simple Channel Mix. > > 20 red, 70% green and 10% blue. The values Shel suggested as a > > starting > > point. I fiddled a bit back and forth, but ended up with this. It > > came out > > Ok-, but nothing more. > > > > Anybody got better ideas? A better mix, another solution? Not too > > fancy > > please, I'm a total newbie at this. > > ... > > http://foto.no/cgi-bin/bildegalleri/vis_bilde.cgi?id=191903 > > You chose a fairly difficult photo to start with. The subtle tones in > this scene are all pretty close together and the granular texture of > the statuary makes it difficult to work with. I remember seeing it in > color before but can't find the link. > > It's hard to work with a low-rez JPEG file, given an image like this, > so don't think this is "finished" work, but just points a direction > I'd play with in terms of going to a B&W rendering. > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/191800-g2.jpg > > My goals were: > 1) separate the tonal values in the primary subjects of statue and man > from the sky/background. > 2) reduce the importance of the sky and background. > 3) highlight and draw attention to the faces > 4) simplify forms and textures in terms of tonal qualities, not color > differentiation > > It's a bit heavy handed (not least because I did this working on my > laptop this morning rather than on my desktop system... trackpads are > poor for precise control of a brush! ;-) Note that the grain and > textures could be MUCH better if I had the original RAW file > available that I could re-process. > > hope that helps. > > Godfrey >
