Local Mississippi scenery

[Grandpaw]

These are a few shot that I took today a few miles from where I live, Jeff

[WesternGuy]

Jeff, interesting images - almost monotone, except for the sky. Have you tried converting these to black and white and increasing the saturation and/or contrast a bit? There is, however, something that is missing in the coloured ones, at least for me, - not sure that the saturation doesn't need a little tweaking and maybe the contrast as well - what did you use to edit these with. Just curious...thanks for sharing.

Regards,

WesternGuy

[Grandpaw]

Jeff, interesting images - almost monotone, except for the sky. Have you tried converting these to black and white and increasing the saturation and/or contrast a bit? There is, however, something that is missing in the coloured ones, at least for me, - not sure that the saturation doesn't need a little tweaking and maybe the contrast as well - what did you use to edit these with. Just curious...thanks for sharing.

Regards,

WesternGuy

I used Photoshop CS5 to edit but I will have to say that I did very little too them. They look identical to what it looked like when I took the picture, Basically the only color other than the brown tones were the sky and clouds, Jeff

I have never tried converting a picture to B&W so I don't think it came out very well. If you want to give it a try and show me, go ahead.

[WesternGuy]

Jeff, I like the B&W conversion, I might be tempted to increase the contrast and saturation a bit, but if you don't mind me taking a shot at your images, then I will pick one and "experiment" with it for a few days. Thanks for the invitation.

Regards,

WesternGuy

[Grandpaw]

Jeff, I like the B&W conversion, I might be tempted to increase the contrast and saturation a bit, but if you don't mind me taking a shot at your images, then I will pick one and "experiment" with it for a few days. Thanks for the invitation.

Regards,

WesternGuy

Go ahead and give it a try. If you can let me know what you did so I can learn how to do this better. I haven't tried converting to B&W before and I know there must be more to it than just removing the color and adding contrast, Jeff

[WesternGuy]

Go ahead and give it a try. If you can let me know what you did so I can learn how to do this better. I haven't tried converting to B&W before and I know there must be more to it than just removing the color and adding contrast, Jeff

Jeff, here are a couple of my B/W conversions of the original which is re-posted below for comparison. The first one (B/W) was created using a gradient layer and then upping the contrast to 15 to darken it up a bit. The second one was done by applying a red filter preset and then adjusting the filter components: Red 50, Yellow 50, G -10, Cyan -50, Blue 25 and Magenta 120. I really just played with these filter presets until I got something that I liked, of course, this doesn't mean everyone will like them, but as you can imagine, you can play with this sort of thing for a long time and not please everyone. I picked the red filter because it gave me the best reflection of the sky and clouds in the water - the mods to the filter settings were just tweakings to darken a few things and lighten others, consequently the red filter one has a little more detail in the sky and isn't quite as dark in the bottom half. All were done in CS5. Hope you like them.

Regards,

WesternGuy

[Grandpaw]

Western Guy you inspired me to give it another try. I think this one is a little better than my first attempt. Thanks for showing me your version and getting me to try again, Jeff

I noticed this is not the same exact picture but one about a frame away from the one I originally posted but I still think it is an improvement.

[ksbryan0]

Jeff, I like your conversion and the additional texture you revealed in the clouds. I'd still like to see the distant trees a little darker and more contrasting, but it is nice as is.

[WesternGuy]

Jeff, looking good. Again, you can "play" with these things until the proverbial cows come home and you are never going to please everyone. I gave up trying a long time ago. Glad I could help and inspire you to have another shot at it - how did you do this one...just curious.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

[Grandpaw]

Jeff, looking good. Again, you can "play" with these things until the proverbial cows come home and you are never going to please everyone. I gave up trying a long time ago. Glad I could help and inspire you to have another shot at it - how did you do this one...just curious.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

Mainly adjusting the shadows and highlights, Jeff

[n8]

I really like that last one you posted. It almost has an infrared feel to it.

[jetrim]

Jeff,
As WesternGuy suggested the gradient map will almost always give you a better B&W conversion than simply converting to grayscale and it's really easy to use - one click