Achmelvich Bay.

[Donald]

Still looking over past images with a newly formed eye, perspective and a monitor on which to play on + the software to help me realise the vision.

I knew there was a good image in this file. I could never get it out. I've now got this out of it.

What do you think? Your c & c are always welcomed.

[Geoff F]

Initially the shadows seemed rather lacking in detail but with the lightbox view everything changes and all the fine dark detail appears. Which produces an excellent scene.

[Shadowman]

Donald,

As you print your own the real test is the output, if I were to print this particular image on my printer I'd have a solid black color with the RHS of the rock formation; as this area only covers a small percentage of the overall composition I probably wouldn't worry too much. For specific compositions this black area might cause me some concern especially if shadow areas were significantly important. Whenever I do a B & W conversion using NIK I look for these dark areas and if it significantly impacts the overall tonality I'll try to reduce as much as possible.

As I stated in your other post my current printer (hp 7960) cannot differentiate between zones 0 and 1, if I see that the final output will suffer from too much blacks and my printer cannot handle the tonality range I'll do a Screen blending mode in Elements and reduce some of the tonality overload.

[Tony M]

I like the tones and texture. Looks like you have extracted the maximum possible from the original.

Did you apply a vignette to the top part, or is the change in tone part of the original?

Tony

[Donald]

Did you apply a vignette to the top part, or is the change in tone part of the original?

No I didn't, Tony. This is the tone that was there, but brought out by using the 'Amplify Blacks' control on Silver Efex 2

[ScoutR]

I like it Donald, except for the tall post. I wish that could be removed. It splits the image and detracts from the scene. Love the processing though