Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on October 17, 2020, 01:34:27 pm
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Jeremy
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It looks very good in a b&w conversion.
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I'm with Rajan, Jeremy. It's power is in the graphics.
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I'll probably agree, but I'd like to see your conversion first.
It's a fine image.
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I like it as it is, but think it would be fun to see it processed as a b/w. Good shooting either way.
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Very nice diagonals, they give a good rhythm. I'm sure that a B&W version is just as good.
Well seen, Jeremy.
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Thanks as usual, all.
Normally with such a graphical image I'd be the first to try a monochrome conversion, and indeed I did on this occasion; but I couldn't get what I remembered, or what made me happy.
However, I've given it another go. Here's my second serious attempt, with a slightly looser crop.
Jeremy
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Very good, Jeremy. And now the graphics jump out at you.
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Very good, Jeremy. And now the graphics jump out at you.
They do, Russ; but I'm going to stick with the colour version. The B&W, even gently toned, doesn't evoke memories of a beautiful city on a slightly chilly morning, gradually warming in the rising sun.
Jeremy
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The colour version is gentler, but the B&W is more dramatic. I guess many of us who weren't there prefer the dramatic.
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the colour version reminds me of a Cat Stevens song....
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the colour version reminds me of a Cat Stevens song....
Not music with which I'm familiar. You'll have to enlighten me.
Jeremy
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Not music with which I'm familiar. You'll have to enlighten me.
You'd probably know him by his more contemporary British name: Yusuf Islam.
You should be, however, familiar with his song (at least I am): Lady D'Arbanville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZP54bClDRw
P.S. Nice picture, in either version :)
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He was refused entry to the U.S. at one point, Jeremy. He was accused of being a terrorist. If that was correct, at least he was a pretty ineffective terrorist. The other Cat Stevens song you'll hear over and over is "Wild World." You've probably heard it.
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Not music with which I'm familiar. You'll have to enlighten me.
Jeremy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0TInLOJuUM
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As I am writing this, I am having lunch in a Belgrade restaurant... guess which music is on... My Lady D’Arbanville by Yusuf Islam! Speak of coincidences! :)
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Ah. I wasn't aware that he'd sung it. I know the song, of course, which pre-dates the recording by some 40 years.
Jeremy
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I really like this image and the pattern of light and shadow. I don't like the second rendition as it looks too HDRish to my eye. With first I would suggest to tone down the white light in the first three bars of light on the bottom right. But otherwise, A1.
JR
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A really good image which works both ways. My personal preference is for your colour processing.