Hi Chris I'm quite partial to a bit selective color & it works really well here I'd agree with Andy on the whites though..need to be a smidge whiter
Hi
Cut nice idea but as you say a bit flat
Live the second shot is excellent nice B+W conversion too
Not much you can do about mic stands at a gig unfortunately! I hadn't really noticed the light until you mentioned it but that should be easily rectified....
Thanks, I used a Lightroom preset that I downloaded. However it appears a little brown on my monitor. So I think my monitor needs calibrating...
Hi Chris - just looking back up - there is a bit of a red tint on the second live shot (mainly in the shadows rather than in the highlights), try de-saturating it and compare to the true B&W. Gives it a bit of warmth, split toning would be the thing to google, and you can do it manually with colour balance (adjustment layer) in PS.
Marsha also found this with her Houses of Parliament shot (Power i think it was).
It works though, better than a straight B&W IMO.
errr.... dunno!
Not a lightroom user myself, screenshot is from CS2.
Anyway - the shots a cracker, and the processing is great.
Hio Chris,
I love the colours in the sky. There's just something with the bright green tree / bush on the RHS which is a touch odd. It doesn't seem to fit colour wise with the rest of the image for some bizarre reason.
HDR is something I haven't yet touched on so look forward to further examples before I take the plunge
I don't think I can hover over areas and see actual pixel values in lightroom but this is how the preset was configured -
Hi Chris
I'm generally a fan of HDR when done well & this fits the bill for bill....worked a treat on the sky & in the bringin out the colors in the tree's
It may be due to the angle it's been taken at but it maybe just a smidge in need of a mm or 2 ccw rotation ....possibly