Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Week 5




Blue Ridge Paper Mill

This one was converted using the channel mixer.

One of these next weeks, I'm going to get brave and tackle black and white portraits.
:/

Friday, January 26, 2007

Week 4




Outside of my brother's barn.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Week 3




Not as happy this week. The weather was gray and overcast, and there was NO detail in the sky. In that respect, I guess it works well for black and white.

This cemetary is one of the oldest, if not THE oldest, in the county. There are a lot of graves with civil war markers on them, and one whole section that dates back to the late 1700s, early 1800s. and there are always a bunch of ravens/crows (can't remember the difference) flying around, so even though it is in the middle of town, it can be kind of spooky.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Week Two

Shattered Christmas Dreams






An idea that didn't execute as well as I would have liked. I dropped a Christmas ornament (yes, on purpose) then took pictures of it. At first, I started to clone out all the extraneous "stuff" (the ceiling fan, etc.) but then decided to leave it in because it looked more "natural" that way.

It kind of reminds me of all those Christmasses that don't go quite as planned. The stress, the arguments, etc. Fortunately, my family gets along wonderfully, and it doesn't "apply," but I have friends that *hate* the holidays.

The conversion for this one was done to the RAW image in Digital Photo Professional. Then, I adjusted the contrast and saturation (for the color one) on the JPEG. Also cropped and rotated it. I left the rotation for the two different, just to see if the impact is any different.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Week 1





A local church

Before conversion, I used "soft light" to effectively dodge and burn (effectively meaning "in effect" not with effect). Then, follow fotomann forever's tutorial on dpc (www.dpchallenge.com---learn>---tutorials-->conversion from color to bw), I did one hue/saturation layer over the color one. Desaturated it to -100. Then, did another layer and adjusted the hue until I like it. Finally, merged the layers.