The Giants Castle Drakensberg

[DES]

At last managed to get a B&W coversion I like,
Your comments welcome.

[TONTONTINTIN.123]

And what a B&W ! Stunning.

[Dantist]

Magical managing, indeed !
Thanks for sharing this unique capture
Michel

PS : Any color version, to compare ?

[Gerald Lowle]

Superb in every way, wonderful tones and richness of detail. Well seen and taken...Gerald

[DES]

Originally Posted by Dantist

Magical managing, indeed !
Thanks for sharing this unique capture
Michel

PS : Any color version, to compare ?

Yes here it is, I was pleased with too, but I am trying to master the B&W image. I just feel it has something...I cant put into words, it may have something to do with my age! lol ( IMHO it looks better still with more contrast)

[hiphop]

Spectacular tones !
What a great shot and a real beauty...
Pierre-Olivier

[Doc Henry]

Like Pierre
Wonderful mountain landscape
Thanks for sharing

[storybrown]

Tres prepossessing! How large did/would you make the original b&w print?

[vertekijker]

Wow! That black and white picture has the most interesting contrast between foreground and background. Beautiful, restful picture.

[stuny]

Des -

Definitely the B&W. Exquisitely rich tones, lovely depth, detail, contrast and tonal range.

[Dantist]

DES,
I made this try, hope you won't mind. I only processed curves with Photoshop.
Anyway, I stand on your first marvellous BW version

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[farnz]

Des,

An excellent shot, and I prefer your B&W rendition to because it emphasises the 'form' of the mountains in the background. The repeating pattern created by the upper-right to lower-left mountain slopes is less powerful in the colour version, I think, because of all the additional colour and tone information which distracts the eye.

At first sight it looked like you might have slightly over-dodged the background to emphasise some of the foreground edges and unintentionally created lighter, out-of-context areas but I can see the same lighter areas in the colour version too so they must be part of the original scene. The ones I mean are just to the left of the rocky outcrop in the right foreground - is this wind-blown dust perhaps?

Pete.

[roguewave]

DES, powerful image. I'm hoping this is from that immaculate M3.

[Neil Macmillan]

This is an awesome B&W rendition. I just spent an informative session in Photoshop with your colour version trying to duplicate your vibe in B&W.
Thank you for sharing this; gives us something to work toward.
Bye / N

[imiges]

Great B&W conversion!

Amado

[spylaw4]

Awesome!

[zernikepolynom]

The colour one is good, the B&W one outstanding in underlining the strong structures. Please show more of these conversions soon.

Stefan

[DES]

Ben....No ...fraid not ,my M3..still in its box..but soon>>>!!!

Pete ...Thank you for your informed critique.
Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement.

[DES]

Originally Posted by storybrown

Tres prepossessing! How large did/would you make the original b&w print?

That is an interesting one....I have not tried yet but I am going to see how large it will go before I lose detail. I am going to get a professional advice.

[Edward S. Isaacs]

The color corrected version is my favorite.
Very good shot.
Thanks for sharing.
Ed.



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