Part 1 - increased contrast using a pronounced S-curve
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| Trees - as shot |
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| Trees - high contrast (pronounced S-curve) |
The strong S-curve made the image look gaudy and very over processed. Taking the above image and converting it to b&w transformed it into something interesting.
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| Trees - b&w conversion |
I added a futher curves layer and adjusted the red and green channels to create this 'lith' version.
Part 2 - high key treatment
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| Tulips - as shot |
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| Tulips - high key colour |
This image was created by slightly increasing the exposure in RAW. Once in Photoshop I added two adjustment layers - the first set to overlay and the second set to colour dodge. To convert the image to b&w I added a hue/saturation layer and set saturation to -100. After that I added a black & white adjustment layer leaving it with the default settings.
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| Tulips - b&w conversion |
Finally I added a 2mm grey border to the image to anchor the flowers.
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