Decay and people relaxing in Dublin

[cian.m.hayes]

May 16, 2007 at 11:52 am

Hi all,
3 images from around Dublin, I’ve started playing with the channel mixer method of converting so, while I’m looking for general feedback, I’m particularly interested in comments on the quality as black and white images. I’ve only been using the channel mixer method for a couple of weeks, I started using it for a couple of gig shots where it totally ruled. Shots are on my flickr account so click for larger versions (click “all sizes” on the flickr page).
Thanks

//Cian

Up near the Jervis center:

Along the Grand Canal, about 5 minutes east of Charlemont Luas stop:

Temple Bar:

[Expresbro]

May 16, 2007 at 12:00 pm

That’s three really class shots in my book Cian. Can’t even pick a favourite pf the three cos I like them all..but probably if pushed I’d say No.1..No..No.3 …oh..okay..No.1…hehehe!!

Really nice conversions on my screen here anyway..great seperation of tones..nice and contrasty…really good composition…just really nice.

I’m also curious as to what the people are looking at in No.3.

8)

[jb7]

May 16, 2007 at 12:07 pm

Hi Cian,
they look good from here,
but its impossible to really tell
without looking at the scale of the actual pixels-

I mostly convert in Aperture,
which uses a colour filter approach-

The red filter in particular produces quite heavy grain,
but it wouldn’t show up at this scale-

Another variable when converting like this,
and which is maybe not widely used,
is that the colour temperature of the image will also have an effect on the conversion-

As I said,
Looks good from here,
but would need to see the pixels-

j

[Alan Rossiter]

May 16, 2007 at 12:11 pm

I’m in the same boat as Expresbro – 1 or 3. 2 makes a nice sandwich but the interest level wouldn’t be that of the other 2.

I’m also curious as to what the people are looking at in No.3.

I think it’s there turn for a swig out of the bottle next?? :wink: (swig may be a Wexfordian term but you get the jist).

Is there a tutorial on channel mixing in monotone Cian? I’d like to try to get some of my photos that don’t work in colour to come out as well as these 3.

Alan.

[cian.m.hayes]

May 16, 2007 at 12:37 pm

Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree 2 is the lesser of the 3, I think 3 is probably my personal favourite.

The red filter in particular produces quite heavy grain,
but it wouldn’t show up at this scale-

Wow that’s really interesting, I never considered that the grain could be different depending on the channel mix. I’m going to have to pay attention to this in future. Only tangentaly related, I think the red contribution is almost nill in number 3, a lot of objects in the background were red so I deliberately darkened them. Also this one is pretty agressively cropped, on my flickr account the largest size is 1200 by 600, the original crop was about 2400 by 1200 out of a 10MP image.

Another variable when converting like this,
and which is maybe not widely used,
is that the colour temperature of the image will also have an effect on the conversion-

I think I understand what you mean here, so a very warm light will have a brighter red channel than a blue channel? am I close? I think I’ve seen this in the gig shots I’ve converted.

Is there a tutorial on channel mixing in monotone Cian?

I’m sure there is but I haven’t actually read one. I heard people rave about this process so I said I’d give it a go on some gig shots. I think that was he key, there were so many different colours of light that by adjusting the sliders I was able to change the focus on different areas. I also noticed that I could change the strength and position of the highlights on the performers faces, so after some tweaking and doing this 10 or 20 times along with 4 or 5 versions of each, I think I got an ok handle on it.

So what are they looking at? I honestly don’t know. I’m trying to remember and all I know is that there were no buskers, so based on the fact that it’s Temple Bar on a weekend and the only girl isn’t very interested, I’m going with hen party :)

//Cian