SSs - Chevelle and Camaro - B&W

These cars were both black parked in front of interesting street scene. The colours were not all that great soooo converted using blue filter with the cars masked and given a Hi contrast blue filter boost. Both backgrounds were smart blurred just a bit.

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Wondering if the black and white conversion and processing made these boring/not worthy after all the views. Is the unprocessed colour any better? I did nothing to this - not even crop.

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Pretty good, I think the 2 girls are distracting though. If you could remove the people on #2 it would be awesome. Good work though. Just my 2 cents.

Those are two sweet cars.... Love the 60's camaros.....

I hope you don't mind but I took a quick stab at editing the shot of the camaro. I'm new to photography so take it with a grain of salt, but I find the people distracting and adjusted the crop a bit to get rid of the chevelle. I know you probably couldn't help it but I think the shot of the chevelle would be much better with the hood closed.

Here is my edit, i lost so much quality by the time I cropped your downsized version that it was almost impossible to get any detail in the cloning so I mostly used the brush which looks crappy, but it will give you some ideas anyways.

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Thanks for comments.....
Markzxj - course I don't mind. Thanks for the edit.
I tried a heavy crop but with the shot lost too much in the composition. One reason for the B&W was to DEemphasize the girl due to her sweater colour. I do agree that in the Camaro shot, it would have better to close the hood of the other car but in the Chevelle only shot - it is less of a problem.
I also posted this because I thought there was bit of a "back-in-time" story with the scenes. The B&Ws took it back to a 60s time period..I quess I was pushing it.