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Friday Photography Blog #8 [UPDATED] | 107 comments (107 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 3)

I don't think this translated very well into black and white.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:18:26 AM EST

Re: St Donats Cliffs (none / 1)

Can you show us the color version also?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:24:20 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 5)

I think this is it. It just wasn't an especially well composed shot really. There's nothing special about it in colour either!

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:39:27 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 6)

Which I think benefits from the same treatment as the b&w

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:55:17 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 6)

Looks ok to me:

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:33:49 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (none / 0)

The master's touch. What'd you do?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:40:14 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (none / 0)

Being brighter does work better actually.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:41:39 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 3)

I didn't just brighten it: I used the levels tool - available in most packages - to stretch the dynamic range of the image so that it had both solid blacks and solid whites in there.

Images that have only mid-shades of grey don't tend to work.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 04:52:18 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (none / 1)

In Wales. It looks like we need a photoshop course from Colman.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 05:02:19 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (none / 1)

You can do that when you're shooting: digital cameras all have a levels display that you can turn on to show whether your image covers the full dynamic range or not. Fiddling with controls should let you improve the situation, though not always.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 05:08:08 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 2)

Nah, I think it's TBG you want for that: I'm using the gimp and iPhoto.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 05:17:34 AM EST
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Re: St Donats Cliffs (4.00 / 7)

Here's a more dramatic version, done by taking out a lot of the green and blue before turning the image into b&w, which roughly approximates the effect of using a red filter on the lens, an old trick for improving the contrast of sky and sea.

The jaggies in the sky are because I was working with a jpg and the compression screws up the manipulation possibilities.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 05:10:04 AM EST
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