Cold Steel on Haight St
by sfalice

Comment by pamelasue:
OK, you've convinced me ... I'm flying out there to get my next tattoo, just because that place looks so cool!

Cold Steel on Haight St
by sfalice

Comment by Charlene:
Yes, the color is cool, but you did a bang up job converting it. Very cool!

Crane, 2nd try
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Comment by Germaine:
Great eye to see all that! Thanks for sharing your technique. I think I use a similar technique with a fair number of b&w conversions. I usually just work with levels and curves, but I will do my first levels and curves as normal, flatten the image, and then go back and do a second curve fooling around and exaggerating the channels as if I was "cross processing". When I have what I want, I flatten again, and then go into b&w.

poppy and bees
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Comment by codfish:
Of the two versions I prefer this one. The focus is squarely on the poppy here where as my eye wandered to the buds on the other version.

Crane, 2nd try
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Comment by carofo:
A lot better than A, I agree but what a tough PP job to bring back details in such a shot. It's a great subject and - call me lazy if you want - I'd just go back on an overcast day to shoot this against a white sky. That being said, if you had not posted the whole story, I would not have known, so I guess youc an say you did a good job!

Crane, 2nd try
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Comment by Art Roflmao:
Cool. I like this one.

poppy and bees
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Comment by carofo:
OOOHHH! Soooo very nice! I love the silky look of the petals and the "glowing" heart. I prefer this crop to the other one but I would have cloned out/cropped in tighter on the left to get rid of the stalk we see there. The rest is just magical. I love poppies!

poppy and bees
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Comment by Alicia:
The vibrancy is amazing, even though it's black and white - or maybe because it is... In any case, it's wonderful.

Sunflowers
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Comment by imagesbytlp:
I really do like this...very impressionistic. I think I would have preferred a vase in a different color or clear...just because the green in the vaseb is not complimentary to the green in the flower stalks. Well done.

Color Concerto
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Comment by TDubb:
Yes, great vibrant color. The touch of the green bud is a nice surprise.