Crying out for Silver Efex conversions with some grain.
Number 2 is really beautiful Like hairyduck said I do find Numbers 1 and 3 a bit TOO misty! I had to peer in a bit at the screen to see what I was looking at. But this might also be because of the small size of the images and the amount of dirt on my monitor! :|
I'm guessing a large format will really do these justice. The pastel colours are lovely.
I'm liking number 2, I think the others are a little too misty whereby you have to concentrate too hard to see any detail in there
Thanks for the comments, and yes I have the raw file but getting more contrast has been difficult due to the lens I just make the image worse.
Crying out for Silver Efex conversions with some grain.
If you have Photoshop or sometingn equivalent, try using a 'Levels' adjustment layer instead of the basic contrast adjustment which gives a muddy look if you apply anything more than a tiny amount.
Or, a little bit of burn applied to the trees and their reflections in #2 may give it a lift...
but it doesn't need much
1 and 2 are very nice. Maybe burn the bird a bit in #2, I don't think the trees need much / anything.
Are you saying you want to turn these very delicate, subtly toned images into grainy black and whites?