First B&W

Greetings,

I never did B&W before, so you better close your eyes. <grins>

My problem was, I originally wanted to crop the blue area and work with that, but I do not know how to treat the blown out highlights.



So I tried another crop, I find it difficult to get the result I wanted. Ah well, experience and patience is required.

Hi Bear!

Try the channel-mixer set to monochrome and test with the interpretation of colours into grey-tones.

best, Klaus

I'm not sure it's black and white, more just very low saturation. But whatever it is I like it!

The colors were a bit overpowering to begin with, so toning them down emphasized the forms involved. The cropping made the curves of the hoses coming down stronger. There is enough there that I can look at many different parts of the frame and see things to interest me, whether it's the grease at lower right, the curves of the hoses or mysterious fitting at bottom center.

Erik DeBill said:

The colors were a bit overpowering to begin with

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Yeah....<grins>



The hoses were part of that 14 ton digger monster on the right.

Klaus Esser said:

Try the channel-mixer set to monochrome and test with the interpretation of colours into grey-tones.

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thanks Klaus.... will do!

I just found this one from last year, in fact, this was my first b&w, and in deed I used the channel mixer. <grins>