B&W landscape

[Manfred M]

Hi Manfred, thanks for looking and commenting Are you sure that you are not seeing an elongated image because my actual image is in landscape format and the ground on the left covers about 1/3 of the frame but some members see an elongated and some kind of vertical image. I too saw it elongated but I after logging off and logging in again, the image corrected itself.

Yes I am quite sure I am seeing it correctly, in horizontal (landscape) orientation.

[Wavelength]

Very good image; i can feel the storm coming

[bnnrcn]

Manfred when I scrolled the image in the lightbox to see how it looked with less sky, it seemed ordinary to me, but I will also try a real crop in PS to see how it works

Yes I am quite sure I am seeing it correctly, in horizontal (landscape) orientation.

[bnnrcn]

Thanks Nandakumar, I'm glad that you liked the image

Very good image; i can feel the storm coming

[MrB]

This one doesn't seem to work for me, Binnur. Perhaps it's me being a bit dense, but I don't understand what it's about. Is there a subject? - the line of the horizon leads the eye to more of the same, and the scene doesn't give me a sense of scale. Is there some intended emotion? - if so I'm not feeling it.

On the technical side, it looks like quite a good conversion. As the trees and other plants appear dark, it seems that perhaps a virtual orange or red filter was used in the conversion. If so, then the dark areas of sky were probably blue - not stormy, but possibly windy or perhaps showery weather; this also seems possible, as the bright flowery plants with dark shadows appear to be in bright sunlight at the time of capture. The sky is quite interesting, but it might also have been interesting in colour?

Sorry for being the odd-one-out here, Binnur, but that's just how I see it.

Cheers.
Philip

[Manfred M]

Manfred when I scrolled the image in the lightbox to see how it looked with less sky, it seemed ordinary to me, but I will also try a real crop in PS to see how it works

I was thinking of something along these lines:



I find the balance in this works better for me as when you draw a diagonal from the top left to the bottom right, you have a balance to the image through that diagonal. But then, it's your image not mine....

[bnnrcn]

Hi Philip, it is a landscape image in B&W as the title says. You don't have to be sorry about your comments as everybody has the right to comment freely. As I mentioned before this is how I see the image in my mind and the color version has not the same effect as the B&W. I actually don't care about how the color image looks because I try to achieve the look in my mind while converting to B&W, so I use the color one just as a base image to my PP.

This one doesn't seem to work for me, Binnur. Perhaps it's me being a bit dense, but I don't understand what it's about. Is there a subject? - the line of the horizon leads the eye to more of the same, and the scene doesn't give me a sense of scale. Is there some intended emotion? - if so I'm not feeling it.

On the technical side, it looks like quite a good conversion. As the trees and other plants appear dark, it seems that perhaps a virtual orange or red filter was used in the conversion. If so, then the dark areas of sky were probably blue - not stormy, but possibly windy or perhaps showery weather; this also seems possible, as the bright flowery plants with dark shadows appear to be in bright sunlight at the time of capture. The sky is quite interesting, but it might also have been interesting in colour?

Sorry for being the odd-one-out here, Binnur, but that's just how I see it.

Cheers.
Philip

[bnnrcn]

I like your technical approach to the image Manfred. White borders also add to the image. I will keep both versions in my files as I like them both. Thanks for taking the time to edit the image Manfred

I was thinking of something along these lines:



I find the balance in this works better for me as when you draw a diagonal from the top left to the bottom right, you have a balance to the image through that diagonal. But then, it's your image not mine....

[Mike Buckley]

I actually don't care about how the color image looks

I've actually never understood why people so often ask to see the color version of a monochrome version. That's because, when I envision a monochrome version, I also never care about how the color image looks. That's also true when I envisioned a color version and changed my mind later to make a monochrome version, though that happens very rarely these days. So, I can't relate to wanting to see the color version of a monochrome version.

[Manfred M]

I've actually never understood why people so often ask to see the color version of a monochrome version. That's because, when I envision a monochrome version, I also never care about how the color image looks. That's also true when I envisioned a color version and changed my mind later to make a monochrome version, though that happens very rarely these days. So, I can't relate to wanting to see the color version of a monochrome version.

To me Mike this is actually part of the education process to help people understand why the photographer would have chosen a monochrome approach, rather than sticking with the colour image. I find that some really have problems understanding how someone can visualize that they would shoot anything other than colour.

I suspect I'm very much like you this way when I plan and take the shot. I usually shoot with the intention of presenting either a colour or monochrome final image and it never really occurs to me to go the other way, based on my view of the scene.

[Manfred M]

I like your technical approach to the image Manfred. White borders also add to the image. I will keep both versions in my files as I like them both. Thanks for taking the time to edit the image Manfred

Binnur, what I have always found really interesting is how two people can stand side-by-side and look at a scene and come up with totally different compositions. My wife is also a photographer and we often shoot together and what I really like is how the images we have taken of the same scene are often similar, but different and sometimes they end up being completely different.

I find that post production works much the same way; two people can look at an image and the final processed result can be completely different.

[jcuknz]

Triggered by John's comment #4 about how the site mucked up the presentation I deliberately did a 60% horizontal re-size and it makes for a very powerful image with strong diagonal lines of hilltop and cloud centre meeting at the tree..

[IzzieK]

I am not a black and white expert but I am with Nandakumar about his comment... 2 + 1s there.

[bnnrcn]

You are completely right Manfred

Binnur, what I have always found really interesting is how two people can stand side-by-side and look at a scene and come up with totally different compositions. My wife is also a photographer and we often shoot together an




what I really like is how the images we have taken of the same scene are often similar, but different and sometimes they end up being completely different.

I find that post production works much the same way; two people can look at an image and the final processed result can be completely different.

[bnnrcn]

Thanks for looking and commenting John , I will try the same thing to see how it works

Triggered by John's comment #4 about how the site mucked up the presentation I deliberately did a 60% horizontal re-size and it makes for a very powerful image with strong diagonal lines of hilltop and cloud centre meeting at the tree..

[bnnrcn]

Thanks Isabel, I'm glad that you liked the image

I am not a black and white expert but I am with Nandakumar about his comment... 2 + 1s there.