B & W help needed....

[Tatt2Guy]

I need all the help I can get with this one, I love the shot, but I cannot get it to look right no matter what I do...... HELP

[breathless]

There's no right or wrong. How is it you want the photo to look?

[Tatt2Guy]

it just seems too photoshopped to me, i cropped it, did the B&W conversion, adjusted the the B&W, then it looked funny so I sharpened it a lil , and now it looks like crap to me.. all I wanted was a clean simple B7W closeup

[Tatt2Guy]

it seems out of focus to me now too....... I know it wasn't the orriginal is falwless except its HUGE and color........

[MarineManiac]

more contrast. less gray. make whites WHITE and blacks BLACK! turn image editing on and i can give an example

[breathless]

Looks like a pretty good B&W closeup to me. Can you post the uncropped color version?

[MarineManiac]

post the original too

[Tatt2Guy]

the original is HUGE like 16MB..... editing is on now though

[MarineManiac]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/cabbage2003/bw-tiger2.jpg

you should have an account at photobucket. they down size it for you to 1024 on the side and its free.

[Tatt2Guy]

see but now to me it looks forced ... its too adjusted looking

[MarineManiac]

it does i agree. but you also have the original color to work with. i was showing you what whites and blacks should look like. your image has no pop and its oversharpened. get BW Filter Julian's way + Curves. its a free action for PS and helps greatly in BW conversions