Peter, I think you're photoshopping too much... Please don't be offended, I am merely trying to be of use.
The original is better and I think that you're a fine photographer but somewhat "distorted" by possibilities that technology is offering. Boris P. J. Alling 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. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
