Black and White
Jan 5, 2019 17:52:45 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
dennisallard wrote:
I assigned myself a winter project of converting photos to black and white. Here are a few of my early attempts. Constructive comments welcome.
I disagree with some of the comments. To me, darkening the corners and background is no different than using a wide open aperature to blur the background in a color pictures. Your attention is drawn to the barn and the tractor. I like the composition in them all also. Very well done in my humble and uneducated opinion. I have to believe that if they please me they please a lot of people.
Jan 5, 2019 19:41:11 #
photogeneralist wrote:
An excellent exercise. All the photos grab me except the boat. I think it's because the range of tones of that photo is too centered with not enough brightness and therefore too muddy. I've done some extremely primitive enhancement trying to expand the range of brightness values in the boat and water without doing visual violence to the buildings against the sky.
Thank you for that input. When I process black and white, inexperienced as I am, I tend to avoid letting anything get too light or too dark. I need to be less timid with those sliders. Another lesson learned.
Dennis
Jan 18, 2019 09:45:37 #
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