Watching

[StuartR]

Been working through some old images looking for some that would take the mono treatment. I liked this one in colour but does it work in mono?

http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/500/watching-mono.jpg

[Ian]

Stuart, I really like this one. The lower part of the scene shows the threatening power of the tide, which contrasts with the idyllic sandy beach, with those long shadows indicating it's a lazy late afternoon. And the position you took the picture from us intriguing. Almost as if you were hovering in the sky and looking down. It also works very well in mono. This get's an enthusiastic thumbs up from me :) t-up.

Ian

[Andrew Thatcher]

Oh yea Baby *inlove

[StuartR]

Stuart, I really like this one. The lower part of the scene shows the threatening power of the tide, which contrasts with the idyllic sandy beach, with those long shadows indicating it's a lazy late afternoon. And the position you took the picture from us intriguing. Almost as if you were hovering in the sky and looking down. It also works very well in mono. This get's an enthusiastic thumbs up from me :) t-up.

Ian

Thanks Ian, I was actually standing on the pier at Southwold looking back toward the beach - wish I could hover though!

[Tinka]

Hi Stuart,
No Critique, a real beauty, love it.

[Archangel]

Been working through some old images looking for some that would take the mono treatment. I liked this one in colour but does it work in mono?

http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/500/watching-mono.jpg

I missed this thread before.
Nice photo Stuart and from nice position as it looks.
The mono treatment works for me, but if it is to judge which version (mono or color) works better, I really need to also see the color version.

Maybe some really very minor highlight treatment on the intense lighting on the sand, is needed, but not totally sure about that because sometimes intense highlights show intense lighting or sunshine which is a natural phenomena and it is not mistake to be captured as it is.


Regards

George

[StuartR]

Hi George, here's the original. I actually re-processed the original RAW to get the mono so the crop is slightly different. It was quite a bright day hence the highlights are a little burnt-out.

Interestingly, now both images are in the same post, I can see jpg artefacts in the mono version that don't appear in the colour version? (look at the head of the person standing on the left). Could be my eyes of course, I am due an eye test :)

http://dpnow.com/galleries/data/500/IMG_2813_DxO_raw.jpg

This is the pier I was standing on to take the shot

[Archangel]

Hi George, here's the original. I actually re-processed the original RAW to get the mono so the crop is slightly different. It was quite a bright day hence the highlights are a little burnt-out.

Interestingly, now both images are in the same post, I can see jpg artefacts in the mono version that don't appear in the colour version? (look at the head of the person standing on the left). Could be my eyes of course, I am due an eye test :)



This is the pier I was standing on to take the shot


Hi Stuart,

Yes, I saw and inspected carefully both versions. I see what you mean about artifacts in B&W version (there is nothing wrong with your eyes, or there is something wrong with the eyes of both of us :)). Maybe is because of the different algorithms used for transformation to color and to grayscale.

Generally my opinion about transforming color photos to B&W (grayscale, mono, e.t.c) is to do so when the color that will be lost has very minimal effect/impact on the photo.
So, given the color version of the specific photo, by transforming it to mono you really don't loose much.
So, I liked the mono version slightly better than the color in this case.
Though in the color version the highlights look better (not so blown) compared to the mono version.
In other words I would prefer the mono version with the highlights as they appear in the colored one.

I saw the Pier you were standing on. By looking at the photo you took from the Pier, it looks as you were standing much higher than the height of the Pier though. I guess lighting and angle of the photo taken, added some nice height effect.


Regards

George