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Jul 9, 2014 17:31:41   #
Les Maynard Loc: Safety Harbor, Florida
 
Still trying to learn Light Room 5.5 after working the raw file I converted a copy to black and white...
Critique please..................


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Jul 9, 2014 18:02:23   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
Les Maynard wrote:
Still trying to learn Light Room 5.5 after working the raw file I converted a copy to black and white...
Critique please..................


Conversion to B&W is just the first step to making a beautiful monochrome photograph. Now you have to play with tonal ranges, subtle changes in contrast and sharpness and apply burning and dodging to highlight your subject. I'd say you've just got started. As a "for instance", the beak of the bird in the B&W version is almost uniformly black, but we can see from the color version there are at least 5 colors that need to be brought out using tonal differences (subtle shades of grey, distinguishable from each other)

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Jul 9, 2014 20:48:28   #
Les Maynard Loc: Safety Harbor, Florida
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
Conversion to B&W is just the first step to making a beautiful monochrome photograph. Now you have to play with tonal ranges, subtle changes in contrast and sharpness and apply burning and dodging to highlight your subject. I'd say you've just got started. As a "for instance", the beak of the bird in the B&W version is almost uniformly black, but we can see from the color version there are at least 5 colors that need to be brought out using tonal differences (subtle shades of grey, distinguishable from each other)
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Bob,
Thanks for your input,I will work on the monochrome........
Les

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