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James Cook
{K:37604} 10/11/2006
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Nice job. Looks like a pool of oil or even mercury. How did you make the color conversion?
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:100828} 10/11/2006
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Well done Ricardo . . . the color conversion forces concentration of the viewer on to the reflections of the rippled surface. The rail reflection and diagonals make the composition abstractish . . .
The only thing I would do, though, is to crop out that triangular area in the lower right foreground as I feel it to be a bit distracting. Overall it's a great shot.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Ricardo Baez-Duarte
{K:663} 10/11/2006
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I thank you for this comment, in particular the cropping issue. I am not quite sure about this but I will try it.
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Ricardo Baez-Duarte
{K:663} 10/11/2006
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Hello James
I have been trying many Photoshop conversions, actually I am trying a combination of methods.
Create two Hue/Saturation adjustment layers over the original.
The upper one is set with saturation "0", the other below is set with with blending mode "Color". Move the Hues and Saturation sliders of the corresponding hues to set the contrast and tone.
Then convert to L.a.b. mode, apply a curve adjustment layer to gain contrast and focus just the Lightness Channel.
Transform this file to Grayscale dumping the "a" and "b" channels.
Convert to RGB and adjust contrast if necessary with Levels or better with curves and add tinting with Photo filter Adjustment layer
Have fun!
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James Cook
{K:37604} 10/11/2006
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Sounds pretty round-about, but the results are good so I'll have to try it out. Thanks for the information.
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