Mr Mellow, those artistic filters are cute , just an example I got here

Mr Mellow
no I haven't tried anything such as that, not yet. I have just been using the basic sharpening tools and the curves. Still a lot to explore , I will give it a go and check it

Thank you Martin. Yes now that you say it does remind of a tin of hamerite paint

Thanks Paul
no desperate hurry, when you are free and comfortable with time you can deal with it.
thanks

Hi
I have been trying some new ideas with the soap and bubble series of the images I have been taking.

Would like your opinion comments and critiques on this B&W compared to the coloured ones. If its something that looks good I might try giving a shot to some that might end up looking better in B&W.

I cannot control totally the patterns or colours, only partially, but can certainly make them either more concentrated in patterns and colours like the B&W image, or put more emphasis on wider patterns, or oblongs etc. I think the wider and smoother patterns do look good in colour so I am not sure about B&W and if any looks good at all.

There is a possibility of creating a certain different pattern like the bottom one, but I would like your views and opinion please.

Tnank you

Its a macro shot of a soap film. Various mixtures makes different colours and patterns. And also different stages also originate different patterns.
I am still learning to prepare the mixtures and getting the sizes of the films in order to get the best patterns , its still a learning process.

Just like the smoke images I have had some pretty frustrating days when I just couldn't get anything out of it except a messy shed and a slippery floor but then slowly I manage to get bits and pieces out. My first images I had to crop it heavily to remove the bad bits.
Still not the way I would like but definitely seems that there has been some improvements.

The help I get from the people here feeding me technical help and also including software stuff like you just see on the thread has helped me a lot.

Full credit to them really who have helped me a lot in achieving some nice results

Thanks golfdiesel . I was actually quite happy with the result, got my shed all in a mess but in the end it was all well worth it looking at the batch of images I got from it

Matt
Had a go at SPDS and seems pretty good at higher ISO.
This one was shot at ISO 3200 and seems to have done a pretty good job of it.

My bubble series increasing now. Managed to find ways of getting the whole image into focusing but at the expense of higher ISO, at least so far . But on the other hand got the image just like I wanted, well except it would be perfect without the noise of course. The JPG file came to 17MB , as I hardly had to crop it. Managed to keep the frame at 3872 X 2592 ) so the print quality remains intact . This one I shrank to upload here to 800 X 600

))) Great tips matt, I just printed this bit hehehe, going to try the combinations. You are a star. I might be on to something great here, remember you put me up on to the right path for those smoke images I am able to get now thanks to your tweaks of flash )).

So let me see, hmm Got LR so its just starting to use it, I like the UI but have used it only to organise images, and compare, but now even for comparision I use FastStone, its pretty simple and neat. But now you are talking SPDS+K20+ISO3200 this is getting me all excited hehehe.

Ahn, and the magic word background processing ability

Matt
I use Ninja for noise reduction. I find it straightforward with the pentax profiles uploaded. But I think I would like to give a try to Silkipix thats what you are calling SPDS right? still not familiar with abbreviations, but getting there lol. There was a time I didn't even know what ss or stopping was and thanks to you all I am getting into the ideas of abbreviations :0