Monochrome

  • Whitby Old Town

    From the same spot as the Whitby Pier pictures below, this one shows the old town and the erosion and landslips near the church. It’s taken from the pier, accessed on foot only, via Church Street. It’s a proper photo (or is it?).

  • monochrome2

    Building an Image – Monochrome conversion

    This is an image of Mike that I processed last month for Impact Group. The first shot is the un-manipulated RAW file from which I decided to make a monochrome image. I wanted to make a strong monochrome image from it. For the first stage, I tone-mapped in Lightroom using the Lightroom develop module, then vignette, and local adjustments with the adjustment brush. I then imported into Photoshop, applied a transform to reduce the convergence and then slightly enlarged his eyes using the Liquefy tool and lightened the eyes on a mask. I think it’s looking more “powerful” but the beard is brighter than the face, so further burning and…

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