The original color version is -a lot- better, IMHO. The light on the ground contrasts beautifully with the sky in the original, and the B&W conversion is just sort of ordinary.
Rick --- "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adventures in B&W conversion. Sometimes you have to > throw away the rule > book. I decided to try converting this photo, > (posted a few months > ago), to B&W. It had an interesting foreground and > very nice dramatic > clouds. > > http://www.mindspring.com/~morephotos/PESO_--_griswoldairportewrunway.html > > If it were a traditional B&W shot I'd pick a color > filter and after > processing choose a contrast grade and do a bit of > dodging and burning > and that would be an end to it. However with > digital there are endless > options. Firstly none of the available filter > options gave the results > I wanted. Red darkened the sky too much, green made > the foreground > distinct but washed out the sky. Yellow produce a > relatively nice sky > but muddied the foreground. What to do, well it's > Photoshop! I began > by making two layers. I filtered the foreground > using the green filter, > and the sky with a red filter. The blue part of the > sky was much too > dark. Went back and re-filtered the sky with > yellow. Much better, good > separation on the tones in the ground and the sky. > But wait, the red > windsocks are lost entirely in the clutter. Create > a new layer with > just red and convert that using a red filter. Now a > little dodging and > burning to bring out a bit more contrast and it's > more or less done. I > could burn in a bit at the transition line between > the trees and sky, > but it kind of looked like that in the original > photo so I left it alone. > > http://www.mindspring.com/~morephotos/PESO_--_griswoldairportewrunwayb&w.html > > Technical Info: > Pentax *ist-D ISO 400 @ 1/500sec. > smc Pentax F 70-210 F4~5.6 @ 110mm f9.5 > > Note: Who says you can't shoot landscapes with a > telephoto? > > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally > ignored. > > -- > Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee > ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl > fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
