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p.1 #1 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

The calm before much needed rain - Knysna 2010.

B/W conversion of a HDR image made in PSE 6. Comments welcome.

Peter

NIKON D200 35 mm f/14.0 1/320 sec 200 ISO +1.0 EV

Edited on Jan 10, 2012 at 08:03 PM · View previous versions

Jan 10, 2012 at 02:47 PM

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p.1 #2 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

The sky turned out very good and the reflection too, but the timber is just pitch black. That could be tough to edit thru. If you did HDR, then it might be worth going back and making a different tonemap image just for the BnW conversion. I bet after a couple tries you would get it and have a great image.
Nice comp

Thanks for sharing!

Jan 10, 2012 at 05:34 PM

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p.1 #3 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

denovo2k1 wrote:
The sky turned out very good and the reflection too, but the timber is just pitch black. That could be tough to edit thru. If you did HDR, then it might be worth going back and making a different tonemap image just for the BnW conversion. I bet after a couple tries you would get it and have a great image.
Nice comp

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you - useful comments. I was doing this with a You Tube lesson guiding me step by step thru the colour version. I'll have another crack at it and see what it looks like.

Peter

Jan 10, 2012 at 07:06 PM

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p.1 #4 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

Very nice, maybe just a tad to dark on the right.
I still like it though

Jan 10, 2012 at 07:18 PM

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p.1 #5 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

A second attempt............

2013 © Oosty

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Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01 PM

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p.1 #6 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

Peter- I also like the basic shot.
With my simple tastes about such things, I added about +15 brightness and +35 contrast to the last image, and thought the improvement notable.
But then, I'm not sure what you're aiming for- specifically.
Charlie

Jan 10, 2012 at 09:18 PM

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p.1 #7 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

I like the original version best. Very nice clouds and mood you captured here. It might need a little dust bunny cleaning though.

Jan 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM

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p.1 #8 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

I like the first image best. Rework needs contrast in my opinion.

Jan 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM

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p.1 #9 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

Thanks everybody for looking - I'd not tried HDR before and was really "painting by numbers" and was quite pleased with #1. The second attempt wasn't to my eye but I'm always grateful for the constructive input from my friends on this board.

Peter

Jan 11, 2012 at 05:35 AM

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p.1 #10 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

Me too, the first one works better. You can just open up the shadows a little (right side of the image).

santiago

Jan 11, 2012 at 09:31 AM

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p.1 #11 · Breaking the drought.. (Version 2 added)

Gracias, Santiago.

Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 PM

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