Some blacks and greys

debu

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5 Mar 2012 - 4:15 PM

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Excellent image that works really well in B/W.
debu

alakananda

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5 Mar 2012 - 7:45 PM

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Thanks Martin, Paul and Mugshotmyk. Martin the mod was helpful...in fact I too felt the lack of lines on the face, but now I know how it could have been done.

DRicherby

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6 Mar 2012 - 11:04 PM

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This is a very nice shot except that overexposure has caused his beard and, to a lesser extent, the side of his nose, to turn into a solid block of white. I suspect that may have happened while you were adjusting the contrast after converting to black and white, since the scene doesn't seem to be particularly strongly lit. The shot would be even better if he was glancing up at the camera but it works well as you have it: I assume he's tending to his stall.

You can emphasize the lines on his face by sharpening. A general sharpening of the whole image will probably do the trick -- use unsharp mask, with radius about 0.7, clipping 0 and strength enough to have an effect but not so much that you get pixellation of his hair and haloes at high-contrast edges. If that doesn't do enough for his wrinkles, freehand select the area you want to work with, feather the selection by, say, 10 pixels and sharpen again with a higher radius, say 3 or 4. You'll probably need a much lower strength at the higher radius.

Dave.