Layers in Black and White

Posted by Dan Baumbach on Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:50 pm

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I posted this in color a couple of weeks ago. I recently got a new scan of it and I did a quick gray scale conversion to check the color balance of the sky against the hills. Low and behold, I liked it in B&W better, so I worked with it some to give it some more contrast.

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by Jenny Ellerbe on Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:08 pm

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Hi Dan,

Those are incredible layers. This really does look good in b/w. I am just learning about b/w conversion so take this advice as coming from a novice ... you might want to brighten that fog just a bit. It seems a little too gray to me. You could use the bottom half of the frame as a monitor calibration test ... how many layers can you see?

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by Ken Cravillion on Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:28 pm

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Nice. I agree it could be a bi brighte.

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:33 pm

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I really like this B&W version - great use of the gray scale!

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by Neil Fitzgerald on Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:11 am

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I like this one. That foreground branch anchors it nicely.

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by Svein-Frode on Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:18 am

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Remember the first one in color as well, but agree it does look great in BW! Really makes it more dark and mysterious.

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by Rich S on Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:28 am

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Dark, mysterious, moody - very effective. The more I look at it, the more I like it. (12 layers?) I would be tempted to do a very small crop at the top to reduce the amount of sky.

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by matt kuchta on Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:13 am

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the B&W really emphasizes the graphic quality to these layers. I like the progression from black to light gray - I might also crop a touch off the top.
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by Harvey Edelman on Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:17 pm

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This works really well. Innovative and an arresting image.

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