Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 10 December 2007 in Cityscape & Urban.
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Fantastic. Is this a B&W HDR?? If not, what did you do. It's great. And the subject and composition is perfect.
10 Dec 2007 6:56pm
@Gary: Yes, I processed this one as HDR. It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly what I did, but I believe I simply put the desaturation slider in Photomatix to zero. This was an early experiment and I'm not sure I'd do it the same way now. The conventional advice is to create the HDR image you want in color and then convert to B&W (the usually preferred method of conversion being the channel mixer). I definitely need to do some more experimentation with using HDR in the B&W conversion process. Oh, btw, I think this image may be a little thin for my taste now, so I'd probably add an extra step: creating a new layer set on multiply, and sometimes following this up with a shadow/highlight adjustment.
great shot, please answer garys question, i'd like to know too.
10 Dec 2007 11:46pm
@leslie: Thank you. See my answer to Gray.
The title and image are both very beautiful and telling the story of lives
10 Dec 2007 11:58pm
@Amir: Thanks. I originally took this for a theme at JPG Magazine.
Haven't seen too much HDR in B&W but you've posted a few, being B&W it hads more to the dramatic effect. I like the hand in the shot makes me think if his just looking or deciding to go in. I got a free trial of Photomatix I really like the brilliance of its colours.
11 Dec 2007 10:29am
@JoeB: I've got the stand alone program and the Photoshop plug-in (though I only have Photoshop elements). I started out exclusively with the stand alone version, but eventually discovered that for images where I didn't have multiple exposures, the plug-in saves a lot of effort because I don't have to manually prepare other exposures. However, the plug-in doesn't seem to provide the exact same results; in fact, in some cases (particularly images with strong vertical or horizontal lines), the plug-in preview looks great, but the actual output has large areas of distorted exposure and I have to use the stand alone program to get a proper result.
By the way, this guy does a lot of great B&W, apparently using HDR.
This one is compositionally very good with that crop, and the hand and shadow on the fence seem to divide the shot diagonally upwards from left to right. I like the textures in the light tones.
24 Feb 2008 5:42pm
@Daroru: The crop here is not as dramatic as you might guess seeing the vertical shot. I actually shot this one horizontally, and if I remember correctly, cropped some of the edges.
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