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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: mokenny on August 11, 2013, 01:26:08 am

Title: flowing stream
Post by: mokenny on August 11, 2013, 01:26:08 am

Stumbled on this photo taken some time ago, did a b&w conversion in silver effex pro.
The original is also attached, which is better ?
Comments welcome
Thanks
Mo

Title: Re: flowing stream
Post by: sdwilsonsct on August 11, 2013, 04:20:43 am

Hi Mo,
Normally I like nature in color, but in this case the b+w version seems to make everything work together more effectively.

Title: Re: flowing stream
Post by: luxborealis on August 11, 2013, 08:29:34 am

Both are beautiful, but the B&W is more compelling to my eyes. Having said that I spent some time trying to understand why I reacted that way to the two photos. The colour seems limpid due to its warmish-green hue; the B&W is "colder" which, to me, makes it more in balance with "water". I think I also have something against brownish-looking water (due to the stream-bed and algae there, not your photography). I find the same is true in my own work - I am most likely to convert to B&W when the stream comes across "brownish".

Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: flowing stream
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on August 11, 2013, 12:32:06 pm

Scott and Terry said it. I vote for the B&W, too. Very nice.

Title: Re: flowing stream
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on August 12, 2013, 05:10:24 am

B&W to me.

Title: Re: flowing stream
Post by: Andrew Makiejewski on August 14, 2013, 10:10:05 pm

For this image the B&W is the winner, much more dramatic.

Andrew

Title: Re: flowing stream
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on August 15, 2013, 03:38:06 am

I like the b&w but each time I look at it, I get a weird feeling that the centre is a b&w negative. I find it unsettling. It's odd.

Jeremy