A few days of great weather enhanced my visit to eastern California this past week. I've been looking for this location for a while. Did not disappoint.
EGrav wrote:
Aw, too bad. It looks like it could be outstanding in color. Thanks, anyway.
E, I appreciate your comments. I don't understand how you can think this would look 'outstanding' in color, when you never saw the RAW capture and likely have never been to this location. You simply have no data to go on. FYI, there was hardly any color in the scene to begin with. From the time I even got close to walking up to this scene, I knew B&W was the way to go to achieve the image I envisioned..
I HAVE been in that area and have seen "the colors" of that area. My personal opinion is that the drab image here would look better in color. I can understand that occasionally a color image just "doesn't look right" because of weird lighting, etc. and it is not unusual to convert it to B&W to salvage it. I don't know if that is the situation here or not, but I was interested in your image enough to have wanted to see the color version. My mistake.
It is your image and your processing. Sorry if I upset you. I will no longer comment on your images.
Have a nice day.
EGrav wrote:
I HAVE been in that area and have seen "the colors" of that area. My personal opinion is that the drab image here would look better in color. I can understand that occasionally a color image just "doesn't look right" because of weird lighting, etc. and it is not unusual to convert it to B&W to salvage it. I don't know if that is the situation here or not, but I was interested in your image enough to have wanted to see the color version. My mistake.
It is your image and your processing. Sorry if I upset you. I will no longer comment on your images.
Have a nice day. ...Show more →
dswiger wrote:
Excellent choice for B&W..
The tufa columns like ancient ruins.
Just so you know, I would have gone for a sheet of B&W for this one too
Dan
Dan, I'm sure you would have, because you still use it regularly. I haven't used film in a while, though you know I certainly did for some good long time.
Jeffrey, I do conversions on film once in a while. If I have Ektar loaded & I see a seen worthy of B&W, I will go ahead & take it as Ektar had decent DR. Since I have a Mamiya 7 (rangefinder), no interchangeable backs, unlike when I had an RZ67.
How do you process for B&W? Manual adjustments or something like Silver Efex?
Thanks, Dan. For digital captures, I convert in ACR, use whatever tools help me there and see if any of the color filters will help. Then finish up in PS. I've never used canned routines, though I've seen some good results from them on occasion.
I agree that the b/w conversion works very well here. More emotion, scale, depth....Some people just like to see compositions in color also.
Great job!
Dan
