whats wrong with bnw conversion.

please suggest improving this picture.

thanks in advance.

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Hi Sanil, I'm not using the best of monitors right now but the image looks a little flat to my tastes. It's not a bad image - just could use a little punch.


I'm guessing this was shot around midday judging by the shadows, or lack thereof. That's part of the issue since early morning or later afternoon lighting makes for more interesting pictures IMHO. For starters though you may want to play with the contrast a bit, bumping it up more which will cause your highlights to start going. So to deal with that, you will need to go adjust the highlight slider down maybe 5-10%.

The expert way to create stunning B/W images is to play around with the RGB channels. Since that is beyond my current ability , I use Fred Miranda's B&W Workpro Flow plug-in. It's designed to render B/W images as if you shot the scene originally with B/W film, but then used the 25A Red Filter, or 7 Yellow, or Green, etc. filters to get differing contrast and darkening effects. I've been having a blast with the program

Maybe up the contrast a bit?

Sanil, check out my link here:

http://www.pbase.com …/cleveland_flat​s&page=all

Most of these shots in this gallery are color, but the B/W conversions were done with Miranda's plugin. Keep in mind though that a great B/W print almost always has it's beginnings in a great color capture. I also use a CPL for most of my urban and country landscapes and that makes a terrific difference in the final result.

The CPL will darken the sky, make clouds "fluffier" giving them an almost 3D effect, reduce glare and reflection, and increase color saturation a little. The CPL has converted a lot of my good shots into really stunning shots.

Sanil,
Without seeing the original, it is hard to see what effect converting had on it, or to tell whether another method might have been more effective for converting it.
It appears to have been over-adjusted in an attempt to get more contrast. This seems to have made the darks too dark and the white water blown out. Then again, maybe the whites were blown to begin with?

If you post the original color shot (and set Image Editing OK in your profile), perhaps we can take a stab at different techniques and explaining how they were done.

It lacks pop but I'm not sure how to fix it!