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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on October 23, 2016, 08:48:34 pm

Title: Verticality
Post by: Chris Calohan on October 23, 2016, 08:48:34 pm

A B&W version of one I posed in Abstracts even though it is marginally abstract.

Title: Re: Verticality
Post by: francois on October 24, 2016, 04:42:54 am

Nice repetitive patterns and B&W is perfect to focus on the shapes. When I saw the thumbnail I thought that it was a chinese abacus.

Title: Re: Verticality
Post by: Otto Phocus on October 24, 2016, 06:17:42 am

I like the patterns and the shadows.  Nicely done.

Title: Re: Verticality
Post by: Arlen on October 24, 2016, 11:02:03 am

I like it too. And the other version as well.

Title: Re: Verticality
Post by: Chris Calohan on October 24, 2016, 02:54:02 pm

Thanks. This was one of the most difficult B&W conversions I've ever done because it is essentially just reds and yellows with a dash of white for balance. Just using the color sliders in a B&W adj layer didn't yield enough differentiation between the varying shades of yellow, in particular. To offset this, I used the select by color range and then made successive B&W adj layers until I had the mix I wanted, later taking it into SEP2 and lowering the grain slider to the soft side with a touch of contrast added and I used a blue filter to dump the residual blues in the whites.

I do like the effect as I've presented it. Thanks, again.