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Postby Soulboy on Thu May 05, 2005 3:56 am

While I'm still experimenting with various types of B&W conversion.
This fella was actually giving directions to a couple of tourists when he turned around to notice me taking his picture. I thought he was going to come over and lump me one (he didn't fortunatley):

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Postby endymion on Thu May 05, 2005 9:15 am

He certainly does look a bit peeved, doesn't he? Good photo btw.

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Postby Bruno on Thu May 05, 2005 9:44 am

Nice photo. The first thing i thought of when i saw this photo was Private Gomer Pyle from Full Metal Jacket.


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Postby Geoff on Thu May 05, 2005 10:09 am

Nice shot Soulboy - this photo really shows a lot of emotion/expression. My only comment would be could you tone down the contrast a tad maybe? The back of his right hand/fist looks a little blown out on my monitor. great capture though!
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Postby Manta on Thu May 05, 2005 10:10 am

Nice shot!

Looks like an extra from 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' !
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Postby mudder on Thu May 05, 2005 11:43 am

Very powerful image, it could convey a number of scenarios, very strong emotions, good capture.
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Postby mic on Thu May 05, 2005 3:16 pm

Good pic soulboy,

Glad to see he didn't come for you :shock: Run Run,

Please share your B&W Conversion.

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Postby darb on Thu May 05, 2005 3:27 pm

Bruno wrote:Nice photo. The first thing i thought of when i saw this photo was Private Gomer Pyle from Full Metal Jacket.


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Postby sirhc55 on Thu May 05, 2005 4:56 pm

Soulboy - looks like a member of the Britons First Party :? Great candid.
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Postby Soulboy on Thu May 05, 2005 6:26 pm

Thanks for your comments guys, if there's one thing I've noticed about my efforts with Photoshop recently is that I tend to go for a lot of contrast in my pictures. Not everyones cup of tea I know and I think I need to learn to judge where and when to use it.

As far as the B&W conversion:

First thing was to open the channel mixer adjustment layer, tick the monochrome box and set the RGB values to 33,33,34 respectively.

To boost the contrast a little I ran a very soft 600px burn brush over the image with the exposure set to 8px.

The next step was to open a hue/saturation adjustment layer between the image layer and the channel mixer layer (so that it's applied to the image). This is where you can play a bit with the saturation. I boosted the blues by about 40% and reduced the reds by about 30%. Depending on whether your image is predominantly light or dark will determine what works best. It's just a case of trial and error.

Once you're happy - flattern the image and you're done. However I added a very slight sepia tone by opening and hue/saturation layer, selecting the colourize box and entering 43 in the hue box. The overall opacity of this layer was reduced to 40%.

Flattern everything again and away you go. :)

It was interesting that Manta said he looked like an extra from Lock Stock, this picture was taken in Borough Market in Southwark, London where most of Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels was filmed.
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