One but different

I'm back online after moving to a new apartment (its a long story...) and while the new place is still one giant mess the computer is up & running again, playing music, and I take a break from assembling furniture to show two photos...


Primeval Forest I.


Primeval Forest II.

This is not one and the same photo, its two different photos of the same scene, the black & white version is the result of making the photo with no polarisation, the color version is the same but with the polariser at full swing.

It was quite interesting to see how the missing highlights and reflections on the leaves of the version with polariser caused the black & white version to be quite dull and uninteresting, lacking contrast and depth while at the same time the color version (IMHO) benefits from these "features".

A nice trick for black & white versions of nature photos that contain a lot of green: increase the green & yellow luminance (in Lightroom or ACR). When pushed to the extremes, a look that is similar to infrared photography is the result.