Three Studies in Tone

[stubbsy]

Playing around with a few shots taken at the weekend. These are all an experiment in focusing on the tonings of the image rather than their colour. I'd be interested if they work (or don't work) for you. Click a pic for a larger version.

[Glen]

Stubbsy, it is amazing how the grain lends a certain feel to an image. Looked at full size, I could easily believe that the first was taken 40 or 50 years ago. I like the effect. (Also was amazed you got 50 people to line up like that )

[Aussie Dave]

Hi Stubbsy
good to see you experimenting. I generally don't convert many pics into B&W, although I probably should try to do it more often, as your photos look very nice indeed.

The 2nd pic could perhaps do with a little more contrast (going by my work LCD monitor) and the 1st seems to have quite a few blown highlights (which distract the eye a bit)...but the compositions are all very good.

Good stuff

[stubbsy]

Glen
The people were all lined up because the centre of the bridge had been rotated and the crossing closed. When they opened the bridge I ran forward in front of the people on my side so I could get a shot with a wall of people coming at me. Here's a pic of the bridge open (not happy with the shot so I haven't done much PP on it).



Dave
The first shot has a lot of blown highlights as part of the processing since I was trying to bring up the people. I left it that way because it somehow gave an old style photo effect to it (like Glen has mentioned). The second pic was a similar challenge since every time I tried to increase contrast I blew the highlights big time on the roof at the right so I left it as is.

Thank you both for your comments.

[Glen]

Thanks for sharing the trick

[nito]

hey stubbsy, I like the first shot. Decent density if people and well framed. Gives off the busy impression very well.