Reflections on sail power

[Willy wombat]

Some more shots from the harbor. This time a little later in the day.

Enjoy and comment if you would like.

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[PiroStitch]

Shiver me timbers laddie, that's a might big...errrr...what a mighty fine piece of wood thar

Great pics Willy. I love the perspective of the first pic. The colours and detail are great! Only critique would be the seagull (clone it out) and the white part of the timber (i can't remember the name for that part of the boat) is a bit out of focus.

[Willy wombat]

Shiver me timbers laddie, that's a might big...errrr...what a mighty fine piece of wood thar

Great pics Willy. I love the perspective of the first pic. The colours and detail are great! Only critique would be the seagull (clone it out) and the white part of the timber (i can't remember the name for that part of the boat) is a bit out of focus.

So the seagul doesnt work. I was wondering about that. What do you think about the B&W. Ye arrrgh - she be ye olde sailing ship.

[stubbsy]

Willy

I agree with all that Piro said and I think the colour dumps on the B & W (sorry) basically because the B & W lacks contrast and so has less punch.

[PiroStitch]

Yeah sorry mate, the b&w doesn't do it for me. Might be because of the tighter crop and what stubbsy mentioned about the lack of punch.

[Willy wombat]

Yeah sorry mate, the b&w doesn't do it for me. Might be because of the tighter crop and what stubbsy mentioned about the lack of punch.

Anyone got a good tute on converting images from colour to B&W. Is there more to it than desaturating and increasing contrast slider? Please help!

[stubbsy]

Yeah sorry mate, the b&w doesn't do it for me. Might be because of the tighter crop and what stubbsy mentioned about the lack of punch.

Anyone got a good tute on converting images from colour to B&W. Is there more to it than desaturating and increasing contrast slider? Please help!

Willy

There's a lot more to it than that. There are a number of techniques.

Here are three:

The Greg Gorman way
Using the colour channels
using hue & saturation

[Willy wombat]

I am such a gumby!

OK - i have some reading to do. No more dodgy B&W from me for at least a week. Hopefully i can take all that techo stuff in and come back with something better.

Cheers Stubbsy

[stubbsy]

Willy

I found the Greg Gorman one the best when I first started.

[robboh]

The first one works best for me and is a very nice pic! Love the colour graduation from the deepblue in the sky down to the lighter horizon/water and then back down to almost black in the water at the bottom.

I think the bird would have worked with the whole bird in the frame, or if it had more 'space', but as it is, kill da boid

The 'white bit of wood at the pointy end' is called a bowsprit.

[BBJ]

Hi Willy, I am with the others i like the colour pics more than the B&W, but goos shots, reflections of the water it good.
Well done.

[MHD]

yes the first one in colour is a brilliant powerfull image!
Very well captured indeed!