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As soon as i drove past this today my mind automatically said that it would look great in black and white. I used a tripod and shot the picture a few times. I then used photoshop to clone out a few ugly branches that detracted form the shape of the tree and used curves to really enhance the clouds.
| Brand: | Canon |
| Lens: | EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 24 Nov 2011 - 11:33 AM |
| Focal Length: | 37mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/4.5 |
| Aperture: | f/10.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/400sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Average |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | Whitehall Tree |
| Username: | 
AndyD999 |
| Uploaded: | 24 Nov 2011 - 1:24 PM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Digitally manipulated, Flowers & plants, General, Landscape / travel, Specialist / abstract, Wildlife / nature |
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A good image. Maybe the clouds behind the tree are too dark and reduce the impact of the silhuette? It needs to pop out more I think.
Nice Image, would make a great postcard, I agree with the above clouds maybe a tad dark, try lightining them up a bit with your dodge/burn tool 
Idea and composition great but it is too heavy. You need the sky several shades lighter whilst retaining detail. Not sure, obviously, how you convert to mono, but the only decent way is with access to at least red, green and blue channels to achieve the desired mono tones.
Paul
I agree with Paul on all his points here Andy. I have uploaded a mod that makes this a black and white imge, rather than a black and grey image, and this makes white = white. Ive also cropped and flipped it left to right, - might look better.
Experiment with the Channel Mixer in Photoshop to get the mono output looking better, - assuming you use photoshop. Your mod is better, but still a little short.
Depending on your sill level, you can do what I did, - I used threshold and curves to identify white, - you need a version of Photoshop that can do this, - anything above Elements will do.
heres a link:
http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=24
Its meant to remove colour casts, and works well to, but will work with mono to show what needs to be white and black also.
Hope this helps,
regards
Willie
Willie,
Many thanks for your advice and the posting about threshold. I have just had a go and think its a great idea. Never knew you could do that. I have posted another mod using threshold and would really like to know what you think. As for the crop and flip i have stuck with my version as i prefer it, but i guess that is the beauty of photography in that everyone has there own opinions.
Many thanks
Andy
Got it - that mod now makes the tree contrast nicely with the sky. Well done!
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