Episcopal Church - Duotone

All ratings, comments and critiques are welcome.

A color version of this image can also be seen in my portfolio.

As always, thanks for looking :->.

Kartik

No sure which version I like best B&W or color, both have there + & -. Please tell us more about the post processing of the image. Tom

Thanks for the question, Tom. The original was shot on 35mm transparency film(Fujichrome Velvia). It was scanned on an old (now defunct) Nikon Coolscan.

In Adobe Photoshop, I adjusted colors, sharpened the image, and cropped it for aesthetics.

For the B&W conversion from color, I used Image>Adjustments>Desaturate to look at the B&W version. Then I changed the image to grayscale (Image>Mode>Grayscale in Photoshop). This discarded the color information. I then used Image>Mode>Duotone to pull up the duotone dialog box. I kept Ink 1 as black, and then played with a variety of Pantone Solid Coated ink colors as the secondary (toning color) for Ink 2. Once I had obtained a satisfactory color tone, I converted the whole image back to RGB color (Image>Mode>RGB Color), which enabled me to save the file as a JPEG rather than a *.psd image.

I hope this helps. Thanks for looking!