Better, but more due to the blurring of the background than the
conversion, methinks. Some of the highlights appear to be a bit over
the top.
Paul
On May 25, 2005, at 1:28 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/wiwgr.html
Frank and a couple of others wanted to see a somewhat different
version of
this pic, and since i was in a mood to fool around in PS, here's a B&W
version with, perhaps, a less distracting background.
A split channel technique was used for the conversion. That's where a
color image is split into its three component channels, which are then
stacked one upon the other as layers in a certain order, depending on
which
channel looks best and the closest to the intended final image on top.
Then each channel is adjusted for tonality and light, and blended for
opacity, before being flattened into a single layer. You can even
discard
a channel/layer, as in this case where the blue channel was discarded,
leaving the image to be made up of the red and green channels only.
The
technique offers a lot of control, but is time consuming, and the
effort
may not be worth the work for some images. Still, it's a nice
technique to
know.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: frank theriault
I find the background rather distracting, especially that bottle of
water near her shoulder, and the bright table-top.
I think it might have worked if the dof were a bit narrower, to
isolate her a bit more from the background.
I also find the colours distracting - here's one screaming for b&w,
IMHO.
