playing with b&w conversions

[JonMikal]

just trying to find a good coversion method. subjects may not be best, but please offer any thoughts you may have on the result:

 

[Big Mike]

Fantastic results...the contrast & tones are great. I especially like the 3rd one.

 

[Alison]

I really like the first. What are you using for these? I've been using the channel mixer, greyscale mapping and Mystical TTC which is basically like the channel mixer but a little easier for me to use. I think black and white is the one area that makes me see the difference between film and digital the most.

 

[photo gal]

Fantastic results...the contrast & tones are great.

What he said ^^^^^

but I especially like the first and fourth ones

 

[mentos_007]

hmm I'm not a fan of b&w but the 17288803-L.jpg shot is great!

 

[Nan C]

JonMikal :hail: :hail: :hail: My fav is number 3. Dont get me wrong all are GREAT!!!! But I really like # 3

 

[westman]

very nice^.^

 

[JonMikal]

I really like the first. What are you using for these? I've been using the channel mixer, greyscale mapping and Mystical TTC which is basically like the channel mixer but a little easier for me to use. I think black and white is the one area that makes me see the difference between film and digital the most.

i used a very simple method i happened upon like in the "searching" thread i posted the other day. goes like this;

i created a hue and sat layer but made no adjustments. i then created another hue and sat layer changing the blending mode to color and adjusting sat to -100. i then returned to the first hue and sat layer and adjusted the hue to +27. thats it. in the first image, in addition to the +27 hue, i added +73 to the sat which pushed the bright areas. i found that playing with the sat it tends to look a bit infared.

i've also found that doing a simple adjustment in channel mixer (+100 red and checking monochrome) yields excellent results. i would increase contrast and/or saturation before applying this one.

i also have a more lengthy process which i'll post later that is awesome.

thanks for the comments.

 

[mad_malteaser]

I love these, especially that last shot. Definitely great b&w shots!

 

[Canoncan]

Jon as usual they are all good. Number three to me is the stand out.

 

[JonMikal]

thanks again.......take care

 

[JohnMD]

Nice treatments. The third image is quite exceptional.

 

[vonnagy]

g'work jon. Snow is always hard to get tonality - get it too white and the scene is bleached, get it too dark and the snow looks dirty. These are looking good

 

[Astro]

Excellent photos. Composition-wise, I think the last one is the most effective.

 

[Bre]

Wow :hail: