Late Night Discussion...

This was a quick shoot with a friend late at night.
We were both very tired and feeling mellow.
The colour version was bad from indoor lighting and me being lazy not setting the camera.
So I converted to b/w with a hint of sepia and got an improved result.
Any comments, or advice..?

tonally it looks flat...i like some contrast in a photo..btw cool chair
its far better than a flat colour image....did you use the channel mixer to convert it to b/w and then duotone it????

I actually did a greyscale, then duotone.
I agree its a bit flat, I played with more contrast but the skin went too dark..
Thanks

have you tried the channel mixer option.....
far better than the grayscale ..much more control....then you can duotone it

Hey Bunks,
I have tried the channel mixer before and I love the results.
I have a problem when saving though.
If I save as a tiff it looks ok, but when I re-open the file it just looks like a selection, not sure what I am doing wrong.
When I did do channel mixer and duotone, I could only save as a jpeg, and there seemed to be a slightly different tone on the jpeg and a loss of quality even at the maximum setting.
Any advice..???
Marty

always save as a photoshop doc.
then u have total control when u open it again
if u wanna save it for web duplicate the image and resave it as a jpeg

Thanks
will give that a try..