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Kazooie · Jul 22, 2012

PlanetStarbucks · Jul 23, 2012

Sadly, I don't really see much black or much white...

Kazooie · Jul 23, 2012

Fine it's a gray and darker gray! :lol:

Jaemie · Jul 23, 2012

I like this, although I can't speak to the B&W technical matters. Others might say there is too much sky, but I like the way it dominates a scene that, in real life, is likely dominated by sky and a feeling of immense vastness. Great sense of scale and desolation! You captured that well, here.

amolitor · Jul 23, 2012

There's some good things going on in here. I like the way the area of foreground flowers echos the shape of the mountain range behind. The row of trees in the distance if a nice anchor.

What I am not getting is a sense of the light -- the image LOOKS like it's a strong daylight situation, but you've rendered it quite dark and a bit flat. It feels like an overcast early evening, but it looks like a brightly lit morning.

Negative comments are likely to be, basically, bitching about how you haven't got the clouds violently white against a jet black sky, using Silver EfEx 2.0 with the 7th Ugligy preset. Still, they've got a point, increasing the contrast to a point would make the light feel more consistent.

If it actually IS evening (or morning) you can work with that as well, but then it's a question of making it look dim, so the look matches the feeling again.

On the other hand, maybe you wanted the unsettling effect of looking like one thing and feeling like another (if that makes any sense, I hope it does). In which case you succeeded, but I'm not sure what the point is, if that's where you were going.

Kazooie · Jul 23, 2012

Thanks you two.

Yep, it was fairly light out, but I underexposed a stop or two I believe, because I was in a car going 60ish mph.But I see what you mean. I was mostly trying me post techniques to replicate a older film, but I'm going to assume that I failed? :lol:

Anyways, here's a re-edit , I'm not sure I like it. Basically I upped the contrast on the sky to get it *pure* white. I did try copying the cloud on the left, but it just looked silly.