black & white, and selective colour. Black and white from colour digital.

Same picture as http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?

topic_id=1481&msg_id=0072MU&photo_id=2044203&photo_sel_index=0 but

desaturated. Is the black and white version more, or less successful

than the original?

Any other comments are welcome.

transformation into a B&W image is not simply a matter of removing the color data. Your contrast range remains unedited, leaving this picture bland and 2-dimensional.

What do you suggest to increase the contrast, just a simple tweak in Photo Shop?

There are a lot of ways to get certain looks of B/W in photoshop. If you care to know, I will be happy to share them.

Ira, try desaturating a mix of 70% green channel and 30% red channel, removing the blue channel entirely. You may want to darken the grass area by hand, with that mix, or go to 60/40 and see if the house stays dark enough. Show us the results of your experiments!

 

(This is equivalent to having used a filter which absorbs 100% of blue, 70% of red, and 30% of green on black and white film to begin with, roughly.)