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07/18/2004 04:01:46 PM · #1 |
I was voting in JFS and saw TooCool's photo "Ol' Kentucky Homestead" and the first thing that popped in my head is that it would have looked better in B&W, so I took the photo and converted it. I'll share the easy steps with everyone if you're a fan of this style.
Submitted version:  B&W version: 
Edits:
* Sharpen.
* Levels (left slider), dragged it a little until the black color started to get dark.
* Burned around the homestead @14% midtones with a large brush.
* Dodged some parts of the homestead @14% midtones with a small brush.
Ron, thanks for letting me use your photo as an example...
- Thamer |
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07/18/2004 04:13:00 PM · #2 |
that's a very lovely B/W Conversion
sue |
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07/18/2004 06:31:33 PM · #3 |
I find that with every photo I edit in PS, I almost always try it out as Black and White first to see if it works that way. I definitely like the bw version in this one. Good Job.
(ps) I much prefer B&W photography to colour anyways =)
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07/20/2004 10:52:09 AM · #4 |
Thanks for the example, but I am not familiar with some of the terms you used - my digital editing is mostly just brightness/contrast adjustments.
What is "burning"? What is "dodging"?
Many thanks,
Joe |
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07/20/2004 12:19:08 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by joebok:
Thanks for the example, but I am not familiar with some of the terms you used - my digital editing is mostly just brightness/contrast adjustments.
What is "burning"? What is "dodging"?
Many thanks,
Joe |
These are terms left over from the chemical darkroom days. Burning is to allow light to hit the paper longer in one area than another making an area more exposed than the rest of the print. Dodging is the opposite, using a peice of paper on a thin stick to keep light off an area while exposing the rest of the print.
If you have shot where a face is half over exposed and half in deep shadow, you might try to save it by burning the overexposed bright side, to get a darker print on that side, while doging the shadow side to try to get more detail out from the shadows.
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07/20/2004 01:05:43 PM · #6 |
Not enough contrasting elements IMHO for b/w there.
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