Rick ... I've worked with this mailbox before. A few years ago I shot it using B&W film and a deep red filter. That gave me nice, white "bones" This time, using the digi, I had to find another way to achieve a similar effect.
A polarizer wouldn't do anything along the lines I wanted, although a B&W conversion might. However, what I chose to do here, for this interpretation, was to create a Hue/Sat layer in PS and adjust the red channel. I reduced the saturation and turned up the lightness, and that got things pretty close to where I wanted them. I've still not been able to figure out how to get that really bleached, white look that I got with a #29 Red Filter on real B&W film. I may have run up against my skill limitations in PS, or maybe it just can't quite be done ... gotta play around with it some more. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Rick Womer > Creepy, Shel! > > How would this shot work with a polarizer and a B&W > conversion? > > http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/w-face.html
