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Sally Gap
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Taken with a 17-40L at 17mm / f8 / ISO100. I’m trying various techniques for converting from digital colour to black and white. This particular one was done with 2 hue/saturation adjustment layers. Top one with saturation all the way down and next one with blending mode set to colour and picked the hue I liked the best. Similar to channel mixer but you just have to move one slider. Sharpening and some levels tweaking to up the contrast. Kinda happy with it. What do yiz think?
Hi mort, well done for the quick post-
The Sally Gap is mostly a barren featureless kinda place from what I remember, I haven’t travelled that road for a while-
this looks like one of those turf lanes off the main road.I’m afraid there’s not much to hold my interest in this one, perhaps the road occupies too much space in the foreground?
But as always, only my opinion. I notice you haven’t assigned a colour profile, and the Exif has been stripped out- (if it was ever there)
maybe have a look at the image in your browser and image editor to compare- it looks like there may be more detail in the picture than is apparent on the web.Pictures for viewing on the web should be assigned an sRGB profile-
hope this helps-j
Welcome to the forum Mort.. hope you enjoy it :)
The large image wouldn’t open for me but just looking at the smaller upload I actually really like it.. it is very barron and stark but the moody isolation works for me.. :) I would be tempted to do a bit more to bring out the drama in the sky..
Lorraine
Great feedback, thanks.
Hopefully this link will work for the large version:
jb – I hear you about the bleakness, fair point. I think the empiness appealed to the minimalist in me. :wink:
Not sure what’s up with the EXIF data – It appears on the Flickr properties page ok.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_exif.gne?id=297682766
I’ll have to look into that and the sRGB profile
Thanks Lorraine. You’re right about the sky – I’ll mess with it some more.
the choice of subject matter was not really a criticism, the space dedicated to the road in the foreground was, I suppose-
Its easier to do a (very) quick edit to show my take of your image, hope you don’t mind-Ahh, see what you mean now. 100% agree – works much better now. Cheers.
Like JB7’s take on it, the name of the road is the white road, would actually be a fitting title for the shot too, its a long way off the sally gap.
I like JB7’s variation on this but I prefer the original.
While there’s certainly a better range of tones it also looks more like what I would expect from a landscape.
Like it’s style and mood have been adjusted to fit in with pre-conceived expectations – the original would be Sin City and the variation would be any 1930s B&W flick – and anything too stylistic has been removed and made conventional.I guess I just like photographs that are a bit different, where you can see something of the photographer shining through.
Mick451 wrote:
… it also looks more like what I would expect from a landscape.
Looks like we all have preconceptions Mick. Your reference to the cinema is kinda strange,
the original seems closer to the 4:3 format of “any flick” of the thirties, whereas my 2:1 crop is much closer to the 16:9 film you mention. As for the tone, graphic novels and the cinema both rely on montage of images, and their constant regeneration, whereas the photograph has to be able to stand alone. Although comparable, they are rather distinct media. I think that this picture benefits from having the detail brought out, though as I said, it was a quick edit, and only to illustrate the crop. It actually looks over-sharpened to me now. Would you have had the same thoughts had I left the tone unaltered?It would be fantastic not to have preconceptions about anything, given that the word is only used in the context of proving someone to be wrong. I think its more of a taste issue myself, which relies totally on preconceived notions of good and bad.
btw, maybe you could be more specific about which thirties movies you’re referring to, some of that cinematography is amazing-
joseph
Really like this shot and he has bags of potential. Pretty much any crop would work… you have a few shots in there alright.
Quite nostalgic, reminds me very much of the lane down to my Granny’s in Carrick,Donegal. I did a quick lunch time edit, hope you don’t mind.Nice Ali. I like what you’ve done with the tones. I have a tendancy to darken everything as I like lots of black in photos but often at the expense of tonal range.
Yeah have to agree there Ali’s edit does stand… and it’s amazing what a border (and title) can add to an image too.
Mort,
Its a great image with hugh potential, you retained nice detail throughout and the sky is just magic. I really like the tone on Ali’s version . I am sure you will make a good print from it, lots of good advice been given on this one.
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