wedding image B&W Conversion
Posted 11/02/2010 - 18:15
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pink wrote:
can any one guide me to improve the tonal range this image
I'm crap at black and white Conversions
Thank you in advance
James
Upload the colour version here, preferably 500k or more and I have a try for you.can any one guide me to improve the tonal range this image
I'm crap at black and white Conversions
Thank you in advance
James
You can also mail a larger file to me directly.(better option) Pm me for my e-mail address
Posted 11/02/2010 - 18:23
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If you want to improve tonal range use Fuji Neopan SS, and the old film camera you have LOL. Just my opinion but the digital b&w can not compete with traditional film no matter what you do to it in photoshop.
Steven
Steven
Posted 11/02/2010 - 18:31
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Well.....The OP asked help for a picture made digital. So we have to deal with that, don't we? I don't recall a question about:what serves me the best for the highest tonal range in B & W? ...film or digital?
BTW....you will be surprised what some software can do to workable files.
And I don't mean HDR in this case.
BTW....you will be surprised what some software can do to workable files.
And I don't mean HDR in this case.
Posted 11/02/2010 - 21:10
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I consider my self very lucky Martin has done a really really good conversion for me, thank you for your help.
really pleased with it a big thank you martin I'm going to spend the next week or two removing the drain pipe
James
really pleased with it a big thank you martin I'm going to spend the next week or two removing the drain pipe
James
Posted 11/02/2010 - 21:24
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You're welcome James. Good luck with fine tuning the final outcome.
Posted 11/02/2010 - 21:31
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Good photo pink, superb conversion Malo! It has really lifted that picture. As to the drainpipe... good luck! It will be worth doing but it would try my patience too much.
K.
K.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 11/02/2010 - 21:51
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the bloke on the right was the best man and I think he was a bit worse for were THIS is the only one of him looking forward.
Thank you for the refreshing comments.
James
AND again martin big thank you they all said when you where AWL that you was one of the best at B&W conversions
Thank you for the refreshing comments.
James
AND again martin big thank you they all said when you where AWL that you was one of the best at B&W conversions
Posted 11/02/2010 - 22:15
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As long as they don't mention my plumbing or dismantling drain-pipes skills, I can live with that.
This what you had in mind? (quick and dirty, I'll admit.)
edit: Bummer...I missed a piece of pipe, on her right shoulder near the window.
This what you had in mind? (quick and dirty, I'll admit.)
edit: Bummer...I missed a piece of pipe, on her right shoulder near the window.
Posted 11/02/2010 - 22:18
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martin that's f-ing fantastic
and I thought it would take me weeks
James
and I thought it would take me weeks
James
Posted 11/02/2010 - 22:22
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He likes a challenge does our Martin...
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 11/02/2010 - 22:34
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womble wrote:
He likes a challenge does our Martin...
Shhhhhh...He likes a challenge does our Martin...
It's more like testing Gimp, which regrettably is a bit less sophisticated on the cloning/healing department compared to PS. But the latter is no longer used by me any-more. So Gimp is the only alternative for me on the shifting pixel department.
Anyways....with a bit more patience and PS it is convincingly doable,
I think.
Posted 11/02/2010 - 22:37
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I'll keep stum.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 12/02/2010 - 08:01
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Looking at the original, the problem really lies in the lighting - or lack of it. I use fill-in flash on every picture at a wedding, not much but enough to lift the shadows.
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Posted 12/02/2010 - 09:03
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Ken thank you for the advice I normally use a fill in flash but the wind had just blown over my soft box and broke a flash and the receiver.
witch i may add my son should off been holding.I do have a back up flash (hammerhead cl45)
I now have a new assistant and a wider and heaver light stand that will not be so easy to blow over
one really good lesson was learned that you do forget a lot of technique when under pressure
Thank you ken for the advice
James
witch i may add my son should off been holding.I do have a back up flash (hammerhead cl45)
I now have a new assistant and a wider and heaver light stand that will not be so easy to blow over
one really good lesson was learned that you do forget a lot of technique when under pressure
Thank you ken for the advice
James
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I'm crap at black and white Conversions
Thank you in advance
James