Before and After and After again!
I posted the enhanced version of today’s ‘before and after’ image on my photo-blog and received the following comment: “good portrait wud have added much more character had it been converted into b&w…”So naturally, I had to give a try.
The first image was produced by a Beta Version of ACDSee Pro. I had just downloaded it to test it as a productivity tool for the wedding I had just finished shooting. It has a decent set of tools for manipulating images and allows for batch manipulation. I think I like it.
Any way, I was using the sharpening tool, and tried an experiment I had seen demonstrated. I liked the result so much I didn’t even think of trying any thing else.
My kids think that the original image has the look of Santa. The second one they think looks like a wizard. I think the B&W version allows for the effects of the extreme sharpening to come through but brings the image back to reality. In the B&W version the man looks like a man.
What do you think?
Original-The result after extreme sharpening-The B & W version:
Wow..love the conversion, brah! Great job…the sharpening post-processing is spot on! Cheers!
13 July 2007 at 21:31
Awsome, just as i thought, its come out very well and has a strong character in it. How do you convert your photos to b&w? I might be able to share some PS secrets if you already didn’t know them ;)
~b
14 July 2007 at 00:24
Barry – can you please contact me? I have some questions about you possibly photographing my wedding.
22 July 2007 at 20:26
very good love the b&w
24 August 2007 at 12:28