one.
by xantangummi

Comment:
I like the blown highlights works really well, great set of sunglasses too very 70s 2 good looking models too, no wonder you had troudle deciding. nice that the lighting was corrected in the glasses and done well too.

Hells Kitchen
by MAK

Comment:
because so many asked I will list the PP here. I have already put it in the photographers notes but it does not stand out enough i guess so here goes...

Open with photoshop
applied lucisarts filter in EXPOSURE MODE around 4-6 @ 50%
dodged and burned to taste
used curves to balance the black and white tones
hue/saturation adjusted the yellow lightness to get rid of orangey skin tone and played with other colours until satisfied

resized.
noise ninja wipe over
add border
submitted.

That is basically all that was done. some photos work well with the filter and some simply look terrible you have to pick the right one. I tend to shoot with tonemapping in mind now, might be a bad thing but it's a style I personally like and enjoy doing. Every shot is different, the filter will have a different effect to it. You will ALWAYS need to do other work in photoshop to clean the image up after doing lucisarts or even photomatix filters. For DPC I hardly spend much time cleaning them up and with the limited editing rules it can be hard to make a perfect image, however, I am building my website at the moment with FULLY edited shots in this style and for those interested please keep an eye on my profile because when I finally finish the website I will be posting a link to it there and might post in the forums also.

I hope that this was helpfull to those who want to try it out for themself. Thank you for asking.

Day 1 - Phone Call
by menele

Comment:
Are these in Cambridge? they look really familiar... anyway. nice tones and always a pleasure to see the old red box's even in B&W..

crisis
by boysetsfire

Comment:
Very interesting. perfect for B&W great start for you

1
by sevilduvarci

Comment:
Love this. The grain is working well for me here, good blacks and good white tones too, good job

Fire Door
by jackal9

Comment:
Nice sharp focus on the subject with good bokeh going on. would like to see more BLACK in the tonal editing but maybe that is just MY personal taste. An allround nice shot with a good B&W conversion

Day 1 - Ev
by jonfrommk

Comment:
not enough tone in my opinion. needs a curves run over it. I love the crop. Play around with the curves and contrast to create more depth in the B&W.

DAY 1. B&W. full moon ..
by roz

Comment:
touch of contre jour in this.. I think you were right, it would get a 5 from me too not because of the B&W conversion but the subject matter is boring IMHO if you use this same technique on a town shot or street shot or even a portrait then it would be excellent..

Strong
by Retroesque

Comment:
has an infra red feel to it.. the lines are working for me, the tree distracts a bit and i might of been tempted to recrop the shot. tones are great though well done

Tone Mapped Hoh Rainforest
by DrAchoo

Comment:
Yeh man... just the right ammount of throttle used on the ol' HDR nicely done. I always tend to go into overkill mode but that's just me.. I LOVE overkill