I like the color version the best and the crop/sharpening makes a huge difference, IMO, between making it a photo I feel ambivalent toward to making it one that I now like. :-) :-)
The B&W conversion works for me also. The 'Ansel Adams' version doesn't do much for me. Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: PESO -- West Boardwalk, Hammonassett Beach, Revisited (several >times) >Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:06:22 -0500 > >I got a number of suggestions on this and did a bit of playing around, >(you can mess around endlessly and never be satisfied). > >First both and Tom and Tim didn't like the crop. So I cropped it in >sort of a compromise between their suggestions, (and Tom though it >wasn't sharp enough, so I did a bit of possibly in judicious >sharpening). The result is this: > >http://www.mindspring.com/~morephotos/PESO_--_hwbbii.html > >While playing around I thought it looked like a fairly old fashioned >beach scene and decided to give it a B&W treatment. Converted using an >red filter. (I re-cropped it because I kind of wanted to show the end >of the Boardwalk). > >http://www.mindspring.com/~morephotos/PESO_--_hwbbiiibw.html > >Finally I wondered what it would look like if I gave it the kind of over >the top dramatic look you see in some of Ansel Addams' >later reprints so I increased the contrast with a curves adjustment layer. > >http://www.mindspring.com/~morephotos/PESO_--_hwbbiiibwhc.html > >There a little something for everyone. > >-- >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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
