Looking into the burn

[mknittle]

This is the scene of a forest fire around seven years ago

I think I can get more out of it In PP I would like the sky to be a little darker and Maybe a different type of B&W conversion?

[Shadowman]

Do you mean the aftermath of the fire? A few years ago I saw the aftermath of a forest fire, everything was black, even though the skies were blue; there was a charred look to everything and the colors of the forested area could be easily captured in monotones.

That cloud formation looks like an eye. Nice capture.

[mknittle]

Do you mean the aftermath of the fire? A few years ago I saw the aftermath of a forest fire, everything was black, even though the skies were blue; there was a charred look to everything and the colors of the forested area could be easily captured in monotones.

That cloud formation looks like an eye. Nice capture.

Thanks John.
Yeah it was charred and smelled burned when we were there several years ago. It is starting to slowly come back now. This has been a unusually warm winter and there is normally still about 5 or more feet of snow here this time of year.

[jcuknz]

Is this the sort of thing you are after? used an adjustment layer/brightness-contrast tool and darkened it and increased contrast then I selected the sky and distant area and painted in a near black on the adjustment layer [ I selected the areas using the picture layer and then with the selection worked in the adjustment layer to reduce the effect ] first quick bit was selecting the central sky area and then inverting selection realised I had missed those bits of sky between the branches which were subtracted from the selection. Final touch up with 'darken brush' to areas which somehow got missed.



I saw areas like this beside the road to 'Old Faithful' from the south and my hosts had visited the area around the time of the fire a decade or so previously ... wonderful how nature recovers.

[IzzieK]

Mark...this is such a nice shot...thank goodness you did not do a selfie while you were at it shooting this! And I like the monotone touch that you creatively gave this image.

John's interpretation is good too in the sense that it shows more of the fire than your subtle one. I like both interpretation...just that John's edit is more intense.

[mknittle]

Is this the sort of thing you are after? used an adjustment layer/brightness-contrast tool and darkened it and increased contrast then I selected the sky and distant area and painted in a near black on the adjustment layer [ I selected the areas using the picture layer and then with the selection worked in the adjustment layer to reduce the effect ] first quick bit was selecting the central sky area and then inverting selection realised I had missed those bits of sky between the branches which were subtracted from the selection. Final touch up with 'darken brush' to areas which somehow got missed.



I saw areas like this beside the road to 'Old Faithful' from the south and my hosts had visited the area around the time of the fire a decade or so previously ... wonderful how nature recovers.

I do like the look of your treatment John,
If I remember correctly this fire was about a year later than the one you mentioned.

[mknittle]

Mark...this is such a nice shot...thank goodness you did not do a selfie while you were at it shooting this! And I like the monotone touch that you creatively gave this image.

John's interpretation is good too in the sense that it shows more of the fire than your subtle one. I like both interpretation...just that John's edit is more intense.

Thanks Izzie,
This is from a shady spot where we stopped for a picnic lunch when I had noticed the trees framing this hill. The colored version looked awful with the colors being distracting.

[IzzieK]

Well the shot is well framed and very nice...no colour or subtle is more like it than something like this in colour...although I admit there are time and place for converting to monotone...and I like the treatment conversion that you did with it...