Horticulture

I have turned this to BW by copying the green and then the blue

channel, copied them into a new background and mixed them together.

 

If others are turning their color photo BW ... which methods are you

then using?

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If i turn a color into B/W, I adjust the saturation, that's all I do.

Picture could have used a little more lighting.

Arthur ... thank you for telling.

 

I have been using the same method .. adjust saturation. It's the easy way but I think you loose details when using the method.

Cliff ... you might be right. Thanks for taking the time.

I usually check each channel before changing to b&w. Some channels have more detail. This shot reminds me of the Ken Williams school of b&w photography. :) Subtle lighting and interesting mix of objects.

Very nice, Bente.... This somehow reminds me of ken's still life pictures made in his old studio.... probably it is the light... anyway I love this very much!

Kim ... I see you somehow are doing bw as I am and I agree with you. Each channel has their own kind of details and colortone. I often .. as here mix them in layers with some 40-50-60-70% in the toplayer. Thanks for taking the time Kim.

 

Brad ... thank you very much. This is set up in my barn ... actually for potatoes and other things from my kitchengarden. But to check out the scenry I put the flower there where i want to place the potatoeplant ... and, yes that's the result you see here.

And I'm still pondering of using the potatoeplant.

 

Recently I told a friend that I was lack of ideas and my friend told me to go to my usual 2nd hand store and find something. I thought it sounded a little like: "Go and buy a pair of new shoes and then you'll get happy again" ... and I did as adviced but didn't find anything of interest .... so I'm still looking for a pair of 2nd hand highhealed red shoes.

 

The items on the photo are not second hand. They are all in use for the work -'my project'-in the kitchengarden. The chair to sit on while I listen to the potatoes growing.

 

 

Beautiful contrast, love the composition, well done, Bente!

Bente...what kind of sound do potatoes make when they grow??

Mari Mar ... thank you very much for taking you time to comment. Glad you like it.

Linda ... ha ... how do growing potatoes sound? Well, lately they have been whispering: We need water, we need water,please water us... I guess the sound of growing potatoes is a little the same as 'Which color does the wind have'?

 

Thanks for stopping in here Linda.

Absolutely wonderful, Bente. I must read up on your technique for black and white conversion.

Hi Bente:

 

When I do a B&W conversion, it's usually something that's going to be reproduced on newsprint, so all I do is push the saturation slider to zero in PS. For a more detailed conversion, I would follow Kim's approach and make my adjustments channel by channel. For a discussion of museum-quality B&W digital photography and printing, see the articles at <>.

 

 

Also, it's my understanding that in most digicams there isn't any advantage to using the B&W setting -- and that a good channel by channel conversion is better than anything the camera software can achieve. Apparently, one exception to this is the Nikon Coolpix 8800, which is programmed to use the memory normally allocated to color pixel information to capture greater image detail when set to B&W. It's one of the features I liked about the camera, although I haven't had a chance to test it out.--jim

..production optima forma!!

Love it xxx

Ok Class ... !

 

Red channel, Blue channel - sheesh - all I understand is the weather channel ........ )-;

 

So here is your test missy ....... How many versions did you shoot ? (similar arrangements of the same items).

 

And what would you guess about this shot that I would change ? .....

 

That being said - I like it ... (-;

I like the composition with verticals and horizontals framing the flowers. Has a flavour of times past.

Felix .. so glad to have you here commenting. Happy you like. About the technique of converting to BW .. I guess there are many ways and more simple than the way I do it .. but I prefer this way because it gives different opportunities and mixing the different channels often brings out the best details. Just my opinion.

 

Jim Mcnit .. the Master of PS .. I agree with you in the choise of working with each channel is teh best way.

 

Loft .. always a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for your nice comment.

 

Colin.. I didn't honestly think of the lines here... but now when you tell me I can see it too (o: ... and it tells me that I should think a little more about the lines when I do stills. Thanks for pointing it out for me.

Ken ... So all you know is the weather channel? HA ... I guess your weather channel is better than mine ...sighhhh

 

....and now for the photo

 

I don't know exactly what you would have done different ... first of all you wouldn't have done this without some symbolism and some humour. I guess you would have had a few more things in it ... you wouldn't have made it this 'stiff' in the lines ( the garden tools are so lifeless) .. and worse of all they are hidden in the shadow of the flower and the stool and most of all the ligth is somehow diffuse .. looks as it is comming from more than one direction and the diffuse light and the weak shadows creates a weak character in the photo.

 

What I like myself is specially the plant. I'm addicted to hydrangea in photos, gives a feeling of days past. I like the texture in the background and in the stool. I find it a little difficult to work with the lines in the woodden plate ( carpenter ... what are they called in English?) but I have no other background being of that size and in a way they are adding to the photo I think.

 

Ok cowboy .. erh teacher ... please tell me what would you have done (different) ... SOL

He would have added an eggg of course!

That comment made my day Regina. I'm laughing pretty loud. Thanks for that and you are right. He would have put an egg there. Big smile.