*** Post B/W or Monotones Photos Gallery ***

[Tareq Alhemrani]

Briliant Wirefox
Specially the last one with the stones. Greytones, contrast, composition all really perfect!!!

Compliments

I second that, and the second that's it!

[Wirefox]

Thanks for the compliments I am a beginner with a DSLR so it helps my confidence no end.

Bootsy your images are right up my street. The derelict places are fast disappearing in this neck of the woods.There are a still couple of navy camps around so i might try to get permission to enter. We were practically next door to a major derelict ordnance factory when I was a kid and I spent years exploring these places. It has sort of stuck with me. What I would really like to get on film is the last B17 hanger at the Burtonwood site (Warrington UK)...sadly it is to be demolished.

[Jim B.]

My 1st try at Grayscale conversion.

Regrads,
Jim

[Bootsy]

press brake

[Colin Southern]

My 1st try at B+W conversion.

Ahem ... "Grayscale Conversion"!

Looks good Jim - what technique did you use?

[ajith.rajeswari]

Kid

[Colin Southern]

Kid

Not seeing anything at my end Ajith :(

[ajith.rajeswari]

Not seeing anything at my end Ajith

h'mm this is confusing ..It is displaying fine for me in the same page, I did an inline posting and even the preview was working fine ..
Can you try again Colin?

Now when I tried to edit the post it just displayed for a second and disappeared, any clue?

[Colin Southern]

Now when I tried to edit the post it just displayed for a second and disappeared, any clue?

Usually it's a limitation of free accounts - you pay them money and the "problem" goes away.

I'll insert the thumbnail inline for you in the meantime ...

[Alis]

At the Park:

[Dave Humphries]

Good focus and nice bokeh there Sedali, well done

[Jim B.]

Hi Colin,
I did it with a layers technique I read in Scott Kelby's book "Photoshop Elements 7".I created a levels adjustment layer with foreground color set to black.Then created a gradient map adjustment layer.Made adjustments to the RGB channels until the photo looked good to me.Then flattened the image.
Regards,
Jim

[Colin Southern]

I did it with a layers technique I read in Scott Kelby's book "Photoshop Elements 7".I created a levels adjustment layer with foreground color set to black.Then created a gradient map adjustment layer.Made adjustments to the RGB channels until the photo looked good to me.Then flattened the image.

Hi Jim,

I think there must be at least 100 ways to do these conversions! I quite often use LAB colour mode - discard the A & B channels - duplicate the remaining L channel - set the blending mode to multiply and then vary the opacity to suit (other blending modes can also be used).

[Alis]

Good focus and nice bokeh there Sedali, well done

Thanks, Dave. I like it too. I think I am getting better and better...

[Bm7b5]

Orvieto Cathedral

Love that Cathedral shot. {insert thumbs up emotocon here }

[Bm7b5]

For ages I've been trying to recreate film, plate and pinhole photography in software. To recreate black and white film is bad enough! This is an effort using the old plate effect.

That is a really nice image in my opinion.