'The Cisco Kid': A B&W conversion with a changed background of my 5 year old grandson wearing my newly bought hat. The brick background is one I shared/posted in Linda's Texture, Sky...

Dave Chinn

A B&W conversion with a changed background of my 5 year old grandson wearing my newly bought hat. The brick background is one I shared/posted in Linda's Texture, Sky and Background Library https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-630884-1.html

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Oh that's great, Dave! The oversize hat is absolutely adorable, as is your grandson.

Thanks so much for adding your textures to the library. I was admiring the brick wall and its possibilities yesterday.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Wonderful result, Dave!

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Glad you changed out the background. I think it takes away from the star of the show. Have you considered keeping it in color with the new background?

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

B&W and of course the change of background, rid the photo of the confusing intro of color. Good change in the photo... the message is simplified and that condensing of information tells a better story.

Color is a confusion that primitive man did not need to see danger in a scene, being distracted by the glint of a bright colored object, orange or berry, made him food for a predictor.

Dave Chinn

Linda From Maine wrote:

Oh that's great, Dave! The oversize hat is absolutely adorable, as is your grandson.

Thanks so much for adding your textures to the library. I was admiring the brick wall and its possibilities yesterday.

Thanks Linda. Glad you like the oversize hat and grandson. Kids can be enjoyable and have a tendency to say just what's on their mind. I wanted to give an example of how I use the brick wall but I'm sure it could be used as a grunge layer of some sort.

Dave Chinn

UTMike wrote:

Wonderful result, Dave!

Thanks Mike, much appreciated.

Dave Chinn

NJFrank wrote:

Glad you changed out the background. I think it takes away from the star of the show. Have you considered keeping it in color with the new background?

Thanks Frank. I have to agree. I have not considered color but maybe I should. Have to think about that one.

Dave Chinn

dpullum wrote:

B&W and of course the change of background, rid the photo of the confusing intro of color. Good change in the photo... the message is simplified and that condensing of information tells a better story.

Color is a confusion that primitive man did not need to see danger in a scene, being distracted by the glint of a bright colored object, orange or berry, made him food for a predictor.

Thank you Don, much appreciated.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Dave Chinn

jaymatt wrote:

Thanks John

veralisa296 Loc: New Jersey

Love this picture! And I do think B&W is the way to go on this one. First, because the focus is on the face and not the color of the background image, and second, there seems to be a lot of noise in the picture which is less distracting in the b&w than in the color version.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Dave Chinn wrote:

A B&W conversion with a changed background of my 5 year old grandson wearing my newly bought hat. The brick background is one I shared/posted in Linda's Texture, Sky and Background Library https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-630884-1.html

Yes! I love it. The oversized hat really made me smile.
Erich

Dave Chinn

veralisa296 wrote:

Love this picture! And I do think B&W is the way to go on this one. First, because the focus is on the face and not the color of the background image, and second, there seems to be a lot of noise in the picture which is less distracting in the b&w than in the color version.

Thank you for commenting. Yes, there was and is some noise and while I did not try to fight much to make a correction, I just dealt with it as best I could. I knew better when the image was taken, but I ignored the fact of the final outcome of the original.

Dave Chinn

ebrunner wrote:

Yes! I love it. The oversized hat really made me smile.
Erich

Thanks Erich. That hat did make the picture. Which makes it obvious to why the picture was taken. Glad it put a smile on you.