Friday, March 13, 2009

looking for constructive criticism

I'm trying to figure out how to make my black and whites better. I'd LOVE any tips that you would like to share. I took this picture of sweet Aravis way back when. It was cute, but not exactly right. Luckily, Gwyneth is pregnant again and may give me another chance with baby # 3. ;)

Since I'm playing in photoshop anyhow, I thought I'd edit this one a bit.
Since I'm really tyring to focus on the black and whites, this is what I came up with for the above photo.
Here's when I ungreyscale it. Creepy, I know. But it seemed like I had to brighten and over expose it a bit to keep Aravis from being too dark when the hue was removed. I have no idea if I'm approaching this correctly, but hey - I'll learn!
Here's another favorite photo of Nate. Simplly converted, it looked like this... way dark.


Then I "played" a bit. I like this much better. I wonder what you think?

1 comment:

Sunee said...

yeah, simply converting photos over never looks quite right. Like when they had that b&w film (back in the day) that they could develop in the color processor. It's just not the same. Rocky's the photoshopper of our family, not me. but i agree with you that the second picture of nate looks much better.