Shel, I was thinking about the glare off the leaves and the metal, which may be reducing the image's contrast.
Rick --- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick ... > > I've worked with this mailbox before. A few years > ago I shot it using B&W > film and a deep red filter. That gave me nice, > white "bones" This time, > using the digi, I had to find another way to achieve > a similar effect. > > A polarizer wouldn't do anything along the lines I > wanted, although a B&W > conversion might. However, what I chose to do here, > for this > interpretation, was to create a Hue/Sat layer in PS > and adjust the red > channel. I reduced the saturation and turned up the > lightness, and that > got things pretty close to where I wanted them. > I've still not been able > to figure out how to get that really bleached, white > look that I got with a > #29 Red Filter on real B&W film. I may have run up > against my skill > limitations in PS, or maybe it just can't quite be > done ... gotta play > around with it some more. > > Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Rick Womer > > > > Creepy, Shel! > > > > How would this shot work with a polarizer and a > B&W > > conversion? > > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/w-face.html > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
