Advice on BW conversion - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

04/24/2005 12:02:56 PM · #1

I need your oppinion on BW conversion of this pic.
Comments on the pic are also welcome.
The pics is a scan from a photo made with my Zenit E. I feel that is something missing in the color version and I can not figure out what!
Thanks!
Color

Edit:
Conversion:
grayscale
duotone
brigtness

Message edited by author 2005-04-24 12:15:30.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

04/24/2005 12:08:25 PM · #2

I think it's the wood trim in the background that is distracting in the colour version. In the BW one the trim is less prominent.

Nikon MF 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS

04/24/2005 12:13:49 PM · #3

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

I think it's the wood trim in the background that is distracting in the colour version. In the BW one the trim is less prominent.

Yeap! I think this is.
Thanks!

mcmurma

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

04/24/2005 12:48:16 PM · #4

You can also reduce the distraction of the wood trim by rotating it to vertical.

In addition, you can select just the face, do a mild sharpen, invert your selection and then mildly blur. Done carefully, this can mimic the effect of a good portrait lens used with a shallow DOF.

It is a lovely image. I hope you don't mind me working on it.

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

04/24/2005 12:52:13 PM · #5

Of course I don't mind! Thank you very much. I don't know why I didn't think of croping it.
I'll give it a try.
Thanks again!

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

04/24/2005 12:52:50 PM · #6

FWIW, I would re-scan this, using multiple scan passes. The red channel is so dominant in the original that the blue channel is very noisy. I'd do a four-pass scan, that would reduce the random component of the noise by a factor of two.
IMO, the best scanning software is Ed Hamrick's VueScan. It will allow you to do multi-pass scanning on virtually any scanner it supports, and automatically combine the scans prior to output.

04/24/2005 01:36:32 PM · #7

Originally posted by kirbic:

I scan my pics at the lab. I have one at work but it just a ordinary one and can not scan negatives. I give it a try and
Thanks a lot!