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Besides tweaking the black & white mix a lot (the four sliders that have the most impact for landscape photos seem to be orange, yellow, green and blue) I used a lot of local adjustments: burning the sky in the background, dodging the mountain in the foreground and selectively applying Clarity to accent the rocks.
I can recommend "The Power of Black & White", an inexpensive ebook that describes black & white processing in the digital domain. It costs only $5 and if you're a Lightroom/Photoshop user, it's really worth the money. There are numerous set screws for black & white conversions in these programs, and while the book confirmed that I already had found a good many of them ;) it contains great tricks and techniques that I really put to use for a black & white conversion in the above photo.
It's really an excellent work in the post processing. Bravo!
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Welcome in the B&W addicts club Alexander.
Develloping your Raw files especially for B&W conversion already?
Will be soon I guess.
I'm sorry,
no constructive critique available here.
Hello Nadja, well, the b/w conversion and the raw developing go hand in hand... one is part of the other... :)
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"-))
Especially you of course.
How'd you get the picture to change with a scroll-over? That's very handy.
ReplyDeleteThat's a simple script I found somewhere on the net. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the Fotomoto script I'm also using, so after 1 flip both images disappear. :(
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