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B/W Detail
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I used to find large animals like Elephants and Rhino’s to be boring to shoot. They appeared to just “stand” there. (Boy, was I wrong but who’s ever there to see the great events!?) But last year, I had this idea that there were two ways to shoot them. First was to feature them in a landscape. That’s only something you can do in the wild. Second was to geat detail shots. Both these giants have detailed skin and interesting features. I reckon these sort of shots probably are best in punchy b/w.
Recently RTE2 had a documentary about a photogrpaher who spent years shooting b/w in southern Kenya (either Amboseli or Tsavo). His shots that were in the show were inspirational.
Anyway, here’s my attempt at this style.
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The originals were a little softer than I was hoping. Downside of using a 100-400 with a 1.4x.
They look pretty good to me Aiden. Nice conversions..lots of wrinkles and cracks. What way did you convert?
Robbie
8)In the RAW, I adjusted:
– white balance
– temperature
– exposure
– shadow
– brightness
– saturation and
– contrastI exported to TIFF for normal PP:
– levels (tiny amount of clipping on the right)
– Shadows/Bightness (appears to work differently than the PS RAW editor)
– Curves to “pop” it.
– Unsharp Mask over two 75% opacity layers (darkened and brightened).Converted:
– usually I apply a 25% red photo filter first.
– Open up channel mixer, tick “monochrome” and then play with the RGB settings until I get what I like.
– Added more contrast.I now sharpened it again … in fact, oversharpened it to give the edges more detail, especially the wrinkles.
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