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Monochrome tones

Postby gooseberry on Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:58 pm

Was walking around on Sunday morning, decided to make some monochrome images...

#1 St Andrew's
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#2 Old Supreme Court
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Postby Alex on Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:04 pm

I love them both. The amount of detail, especially in the 2nd one, is amazing.

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Postby Geoff on Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:13 pm

The 2nd one is amazing! Looks like a fine art drawing! Well done.
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Postby Ladybird on Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:04 pm

These are both great. As said above the detail in the second is amazing. But I also like the first due to how you've framed it with the leaves.
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Postby devilla101 on Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:50 pm

beautiful images especially the second one. Where the clouds actually like that or where they photoshopped in? Regardless, beautiful image and detail
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:00 pm

Gooseberry, the second shot it actually my favourite building in all of Singapore, and also the subject of one of my favourite photos (my 333 photo taken with my brand new D70). I love the processing on this one please explain in some detail how you achieved this.. I'll be in Singapore in June for a wedding and I'd love to create a similar feel.. (using maybe a different angle).

The first shot is also very nice, great framing with the foliage.
Maybe we can catch up in June, I'd be keen to meet up!
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Postby gooseberry on Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:00 am

Thanks all, glad you like the images.

Sorry for the late reply Craig, been away for a couple of days. Yeah, it is a very nice building isn't it ? As for the processing, for both images, after NEF conversion, I did some selective curves adjustments to different parts of the image (the sky, the bright parts of the buildings, the dark parts of the buildings, the leaves etc) to try and bring out the tones I wanted and to even out the exposure a bit. After that, did a B&W conversion in channel mixer (added a warm selenium tone to the first one) and softened the overall image a little, then finally resized the image and did an edge sharpening.

Yeah, it'd be great to meet up if you're in Singapore in June - let me know when you'll be around and perhaps we can go take a shot of it together.
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Postby Greg B on Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:29 am

Wow. Outstanding, both of them. You have really nailed the BW conversions here, congratulations.
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Postby B01NG on Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:28 pm

wow, both amazing shots...they almost look like paintings.. :o
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