re: #103 Rightwingconspirator

I like the B&W. It fits the subject given the look of the church and it’s heavy emotional impact. Intimidating architecture. Today we went to Descanso gardens to meet a friend and wander around. D_L got this cute little bunny out in the grass. I think the color version works best given the subject.

I was shocked to find the appeal I felt (and some others) when I experimented with fire photography in B&W.

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Depends on how you do the B/W conversion. Here again is my good quick and dirty method, with control.

Create two Hue/Adjustment layers.
Take the Saturation slider to zero on the top layer.
Make the bottom Adjustment layer “Color” mode.
Play with the Hue slider on the bottom adjustment layer until the image looks good.

I also made an oval selection around the bunny, feathered, and tweaked the levels. Then inverted the selection and tweaked again. Another oval selection in the upper right hand corner, feathered, and dodged out the too dark area there.

Now the bunny pops out.

This method basically duplicates the use of color filters on b/w film, except you don’t have to do it in camera and don’t have to worry about remembering the filter factor.