New B/W conversion

[embdaw]

Whatcha think?? Comments appreciated! ;)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/embdaw/_MG_1704.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/embdaw/_MG_1711.jpg

[MKII]

i just loved your shots...exellent pose and use of levels...nise highlights and shadows..keep walking...!!!

[Skippy29]

These are beautiful, great job on the b&w conversion as well! These have a lot of "pop" to them, nice job!

[Beegeeboss]

Awesome! How do you convert the images. My B/W always seem flat.

[gparvan]

Nice pics

[nvrl8]

I absolutely love the second one...but the first seems too blown out on the right. Nice conversions! Do tell...

[livewire-photography.com]

oh the second shot is stunnng, Well done n that one.

[embdaw]

Thanks everyone!

I absolutely love the second one...but the first seems too blown out on the right. Nice conversions! Do tell...


Thanks, yea the first one got a bit blown in the conversion, but I liked the high key effect it had...:D

Ok, the long and the short of the PP is...I converted the mode to lab color, deleted the a and b channels, then converted back to greyscale, applied a black gradient, then a soft light mask...then tweak to your liking...

HTH!

[dsze]

Nice, I love the high contrast, but I'm going to go against the rest of the crowd here and say that maybe you pushed the processing a little too much on these. You lost some black detail and you've blown some highlights. Try backing off just a little bit and I think I'd also like to see just a little graininess and not such smooth texture in these B&W conversions. Personally, I like to use some grainy film that I scanned in...Just something to try.