B&W's Stockton Beach

[Batesy]

Hi All,
Here are 2 shots taken on an extremely windy day on Stockton Beach. I shot these on raw and converted them to b&w via photoshop.

All feedback welcome.

Cheers,
Colin.

[dawesy]

#2 for sure! It's great. very abstract but that's what makes it great. It's simple and a great study of light and texture. The sky is great as well. Love it.

[BlueBottle]

Wow mate, good job! I actually prefer #1--you can't tell where the dunes and the sky meet. I was wanting to go shoot Stockton, now I'm DEFINITELY going to!

[biggerry]

I Like number 2, maybe alittle more sky though??

[gstark]

I would like to see the contrast bumped in these. At the moment they look way too flat, and to me, they lack punch and impact.

[daniel_r]

Stockton beach is a great place to shoot great landscapes.

When processing Black and White landscapes such as these, it's usually beneficial to have deep blacks and bright whites, with an even representation of greys. This link on tonality may be of use.

[Batesy]

Thank you all for your comments. Very much appreciated.


Cheers,
Colin.

[DaveB]

Simply playng with Curves in Photoshop on #1 gives it a lot more punch (although you can easily do it via sliders in your RAW processor).

But a word of warning: your JPEG files are in AdobeRGB, not sRGB. Thus web audiences are unlikely to see what you intended. For B&W images the difference is slight, but there is still a difference. You're using CS3 on Windows: just make sure you convert the image to sRGB as the penultimate step before saving the output web file.