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12/10/2011 06:09:45 AM |
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12/10/2011 02:47:37 AM |
Originally posted by Tiny:
You have super Blacks and Whites on all these images. Any special processing here ? Any hints / tips welcome. |
Thanks, these are the first b&w's I've done in photoshop instead of lightroom or silver efex - trying to get a bit more control over my processing while going for something simple and high contrast. I'm pleased with how they turned out and the steps are pretty simple:
Image > Mode > Lab Color
Channels > Lightness
Image > Mode > Grayscale (discard other channels)
Sharpen via High Pass layer
Levels
Curves
Brightness/Contrast
The two exceptions to this are my shot of the houses or parliament which used the silver efex pro preset "High Structure (Harsh)", which is essentially a faux-hdr b&w effect, reducing the dynamic range of the image first, and my shot of the dog, which is straight from the camera (shooting RAW+jpeg) with my picture style on a custom monochrome setting (contrast: max, shaprening: max) - which I think generally produces good results in large range of situations. |
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12/10/2011 02:04:44 AM |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Ah, one of my favourite spots in London for Architecture pics, would love to go there at night
From the same B&W side challenge |
Nice reflections in yours. Yeah, I wish this were an original image, though there were at least two other people with cameras there taking the same shot during the time I was there. Unfortunately I had a train to catch so couldn't spend as long round there as I would have liked - but that gives me something still to do next time I guess =). |
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12/09/2011 07:15:37 AM |
| You have super Blacks and Whites on all these images. Any special processing here ? Any hints / tips welcome. |
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12/07/2011 04:21:34 AM |
It is actually very interesting to see these views at night and in Black&White, as most people will go for colour and daylight. One of the advantages of being busy entertaining the family during the day, I suppose :)
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12/06/2011 06:41:19 PM |
Ah, one of my favourite spots in London for Architecture pics, would love to go there at night
From the same B&W side challenge |
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12/06/2011 06:21:36 PM |
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