That’s just fantastic. And “India in one photo” is spot on. Great that it’s B&W, too.
If you have a moment some time, I’d be really interested to hear some details of how precisely you do the conversion from colour. I’m sure I could learn a lot from that.
kalani_kane wrote:
Beautiful images, "India in one photo...." it feels like we are there with you and can step through the frame, thank you
Thankyou. Very kind words.
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Andrew CD wrote:
That’s just fantastic. And “India in one photo” is spot on. Great that it’s B&W, too.
If you have a moment some time, I’d be really interested to hear some details of how precisely you do the conversion from colour. I’m sure I could learn a lot from that.
Thanks Andrew. I'm not sure I have any secrets to impart. I knew it was going to be a b&w image when I framed it up. I do wish the X2D had a mono evf option, even if not a b&w jpeg.
Processing wise, I just went with how it felt to shoot. Hot and dry. So I just processed to be that. I like to have blacks and whites in my images so I usually set those first. Then in LR I went to the profiles section and went through the various b&w options until I got one I liked for this shot. Then modded to taste. In this image I darkened the faces as the person, to me, is less important than what they are doing, for this image. I upped the contrast a bit and then used a small curve adjustment for the midtones to retain that hot and dry feel. I was lucky. Mostly it was all in front of me when I pushed the button.
Actually the most important bit was moving along the path until I got the towers of the Taj balanced. Just happened that the center tree is exactly where I would want it to be also. I spent maybe ten minutes moving around to get the scene right. I took only one frame. The path is raised above the field which makes life really easy.
Some imags you have to really work for. This wasn't one of those. I knew it the second I saw it. The rest is tweaking in frame and in post.
