Dave, I used channel mixer to do the conversion. The trees and church are To get the sky to go really dark I cranked up the red channel up to 200% and set the blue channel at -100%.
-Mark >Thanks for the feedback Mark. > >I like the conversion. > >I played around a bit after i loaded this image in PS with the B&W >foto fusion filters, but did not like what i was getting. > >Dave > >On 3/25/07, Mark Erickson <mark at westerickson.net> wrote: >> I think that the subject and composition are great. >> >> Now for some fun stuff. This image cried out to me to be converted into >> black and white. Forgive me in advance for tampering with your image, but I >> did an extreme version and posted it here: >> >> http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/tempchurch.jpg >> >> This one almost looks infrared. At least some of the muzziness is the >> channel mixer interacting with jpeg compression artifacts. I think you'd be >> able to get much, much better quality results by working with the original >> image. >> >> Let me know what you think.... >> >> --Mark >> >> David J Brooks wrote: >> > >> > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5770073 >> > >> > I found two, what look to be abandoned or at least lightly used >> > churches on a drive last Dec. >> > >> > I was trying to use the trees to frame the church, but i don't think i >> > did a great job. T >> > >> > This is one of several i kinda like. >> > >> > Just looking for comments, works or not, please. >> > >> > I think they will make great ir shots in the spring, so thats were >> > i'll be going soon. >> > >> > Dave >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
