Nikon DSLR "Picture Of The Day"

[davew]

Woke up to a little snow this morning

taken with the 50mm 1.8 prime no flash
hand held so I know it is not to sharp

[cincyimages]

Twism, I love the photo with the gulls. Nice job!

[Twism]

Twism, I love the photo with the gulls. Nice job!

Ahh.. thanks a ton

Went out for a walk yesterday to try get my first B&W shot...



Converted to BW in photoshop

[Rooz]

Ahh.. thanks a ton

Went out for a walk yesterday to try get my first B&W shot...



Converted to BW in photoshop

you lost a little in the foreground when going b/w. when you did the conversion, did you just do an "auto convert" or did you use the r/g/b levels ?

this is a really nice photo and if you convert it a little better in ps, i think it's a real keeper in b/w. love the trees.

[Twism]

you lost a little in the foreground when going b/w. when you did the conversion, did you just do an "auto convert" or did you use the r/g/b levels ?

this is a really nice photo and if you convert it a little better in ps, i think it's a real keeper in b/w. love the trees.

I wasnt aware that there was an "auto convert" .. to answer your question, I desaturated it and then played around with the contrast a bit.

Could I possibly PM or post the origanal so you could show me what you mean? or how you would do it? It would be a nice learning experience for me

And lastly, thanks for the kind words

[davew]

[XaiLo]

I wasnt aware that there was an "auto convert" .. to answer your question, I desaturated it and then played around with the contrast a bit.

Could I possibly PM or post the origanal so you could show me what you mean? or how you would do it? It would be a nice learning experience for me

And lastly, thanks for the kind words

Great shot Twism, go ahead and pm or post it I'd like to see what I could do with it.

[Twism]

Great shot Twism, go ahead and pm or post it I'd like to see what I could do with it.

Thank you XaiLo

Just did an auto conversion from RAW and sized it down a bit from the original. just shout if you would prefer the original original...



Thanks for the help... will be waiting to see your results.

[britkev]

I wasnt aware that there was an "auto convert" .. to answer your question, I desaturated it and then played around with the contrast a bit.

Could I possibly PM or post the origanal so you could show me what you mean? or how you would do it? It would be a nice learning experience for me

And lastly, thanks for the kind words

Simply dialling down saturation usually leads to rather flat looking B&W conversions... one popular method in Photoshop is to use a Channel Mixer adjustment layer so you can dial in the amount of luminance taken from each of the RGB channels. The new version (CS3) has an autoconvert to B&W with sliders to allow you to do pretty much the same thing. I'd show you, but I'm at work right now with no photoshop.

[Rooz]

I wasnt aware that there was an "auto convert" .. to answer your question, I desaturated it and then played around with the contrast a bit.

Could I possibly PM or post the origanal so you could show me what you mean? or how you would do it? It would be a nice learning experience for me

And lastly, thanks for the kind words

it just takes some practice and TBH, it all comes down to your taste aswell.
photo #1 and #2 are using just the contrast/ brightness scales. one has the foreground too dark, (similar to your original), the other looks very "flat" if you try and brighten it up.

#3 is using levels and curves and r/g/b channels. #4 just adds a bit of warmth for a touch of sepia.

(many apologies for the multiple photos mr admin)