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Postby Wombat124 on Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:55 pm

I like the concept of leaving a little bit of colour in a photo converted to B&W - as a statement about the photo. Below are 4 images taken with my D70 which I have worked on for this purpose:

Canberra Show 2005
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Thames River In the Rain 2004
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Hampton Court 2004
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Easter Show 2005
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:02 pm

It’s good fun wombat :D

IMO number 2 works the best because it is subtle. #3 does not work at all. #4 is not bad and #1 is fun.

Keep on PS’ing :wink:
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Postby MHD on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:02 pm

Hmmm my favs are the first and last
first: thats really red red
second: now that is a classic image!
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Postby Wombat124 on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:09 pm

Thanks Chris and Scot

The sauce in Image 1 is real - no playing around with in in PS.

Get the point on No 2 - I thought it may be too obvious i.e. not subtle as Chris said.

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Postby Greg B on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:17 pm

Number 1 looks well dodgy.

I love #2, excellent shot

3 and 4 are OK.
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Postby xerubus on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:25 pm

the ps work is done very well... congrats.

how are you converting your b&w? perhaps it's just me, but the conversion looks washed out?

i love the first shot... what is he thinking? who are the dagwoods for? etc.. nice story.

the second one has great old world charm... a nice sepia or duotone would work very well with this shot..


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Postby Wombat124 on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:37 pm

Greg and Xerubus

Thanks comments.

I use Channel Mix or Saturation depending on the subjcet - dark bits or light bits. I will try the sepia and post it if it looks Ok - No 2 is my fav as well.

The original No 1 is below - I haven't changed the colour - maybe the starkness with the grayscale show it up more, dont' know:

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Postby mic on Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:57 pm

Hi Wombat124 :D

Nice Pics, I really like the 1st

Whats your way of doing this process ?

Thanks,

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Postby Wombat124 on Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:18 pm

Mic

Thanks for comments.

I users layers in Photoshop; and in the background layer I use the Magic Wand Tool to highlight the area I want to reamin coloured: I then use Select/Inverse to highlight the remaining area and then destaturate or Channel Mix that part; then flatten image. That is the roughly my workflow - of course you can use any other technique to turn to B&W / Sepia/ Duotone.

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Postby Nicole on Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:03 pm

My favourites are the second and last. Interesting concept.
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Postby Killakoala on Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:57 pm

It's great to play around with this type of thing and see which ones work and which ones don't. I really like the one with the boats, it seems more natural than the others.

Well done and keep doing it ;)
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