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how to b&w…
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can anyone give me tips or point me in the right direction for converting to b&w? i find my stuff is very flat :(
It looks great to me-
If you want to take the processing further, you can-
but that looks really good as a start off point-
nothing wrong with that conversion-Don’t worry about flat on your monitor-
make a print and see what that’s like-
then say its flat, if it needs saying…j
jb, i am taking your advice and printing some of my images off to see if it’s my computer or me. :)
i try not to use lightroom/iphoto presets but i suppose they’re there for a reason and i can play around from there.
thanks!
I’d agree with Joseph on this one. Printing can tell a better story but as a web image this looks fine to me. I wouldn’t do any more with it…well, I probably would, but I’d ruin it. :wink:
Alan
That looks pretty good to me too, adequate contrast and good
tonal range. So easy to overdo things with mono conversions.
This should print really well…What lovely eyes…
Rob.
I think the tips for print rather than a computer screen are bang on….ive seen, what i thought were good b&w contrasts/tones of mine on different screens and been horrified! i’m taking all my photos now to be prints, rather than just a computer screen.
Anyway its a really beautiful image and has lovely tones.well done! any ‘harsh’ contrast would ruin this I reckon.
As J of The B7’s says it a fine conversion.
Any adjustments should be minor and subtle rather than wholesale, I suspect.Maybe a teeny weeny gentle s curve in the curves option.
Or try to use the Filter > sharpen tool
Filter > sharpen
Edit > fade sharpen : 15% using ‘softlight’ or ‘overlay’
(15% is just a guess, so move the slider left/right till happy – ‘soft light’ is more subtle than ‘overlay’…then try all the drop down options just so you can see the various effects which may come in useful for different images).Looks fine to me, maybe vignette the background slightly as it’s quite large and fairly flat in tone. The subject looks absolutely fine.
Si
another one here. I find the tones are very nice in the photo, not too flat looking to me.
Awwww aside :) thats a perfectly good mono portrait. you can go mad with contrast and dodging/burning to the cows come home but for portraits this works better personaly.
But by all means experiment and find something you like or dont like even as thats part of the learning process.
a bit late, but thanks for all the comments. mick, i’ve given the ps tips a go and having a play around.
thanks!
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