Goose - BW

[Dao]

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#2

#3

 

[WesternGuy]

Nice shots. I really like the conversion. Care to share how you did it?

WesternGuy

 

[Radical]

Ya really nice pics.

 

[Dao]

Thanks WesternGuy and Radical.

WesternGuy,
Here are some of the details of the photos.
All taken on a cloudy day (kind of cold). 7D with 70-200mm f/4 @f/5.6, ISO320. #1 & 2 are shot in 1/250 (@ max flash sync speed) while the #1 is 1/200. Flash fired on all photos. (Tried to add a little catch light in their eyes and bring some details on the shadow)

POST on all of them were done with LR4.
- Crop
- Exposure adjustment (most of the shots were shot slightly overexposed)
- Hit the BW to convert it to black and white
- Adjust highlight/white level so bring more texture(details) back in the white part of the goose
- Adjust shadow/black level to bring more texture (detail) back in the black part of the goose.
- Under the BW section in LR, adjust the individual color channel to bring more contrast in some area (especially water in #1). The overall adjustment in the color channels were just based on my personal preference. I adjusted them and found the look I prefer. In BW, I often like more contrast look.
- Sharpening and noise reduction.
- A little artificial vignetting.

At the end, export them to jpegs (with size adjustment).