Thursday, March 11, 2010

Long Day's Journey into Black and White


It's a little known factoid, but in order to get the best possible tones in your black and white conversions, it's a good practice to get the color processing nailed down first! In the top image, the exposure was aperture priority, matrix metering. It's a bit dark, but the light was low enough to render a low contrast image, making it easy to adjust exposure and saturation. The second image is the result of using several control points in nik's Viveza 2 brighten and intensify color, add some contrast to the sky, and saturate the buildings. The bottom image is the result of the black and white conversion in Silver Efex Pro. After applying the green filter, I only needed to add a bit of structure to get the final image I was seeing in my imagination.


Don't forget that you can click the image to see it in a much larger view in a separate window.

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