I found this somewhat chaotic gathering of weathered pieces of an old Lodgepole Pine near Sonora Pass in the Sierra, and wanted to see if I could extract order from the chaos.
There was very little color remaining in the wood, so I thought this would look nice in B&W.
Tachihara 4x5
Fujinon 180mm
Astia 100F Converted to B&W
TK's Masks
June 2005, Reworked in 2013.
Please see the large version. Thanks.
Your comments and critiques are always appreciated.
--P
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18 commentspat
Based upon Harley's comment regarding the toning, I eliminated that layer. So, here's the un-toned version.
Which do you prefer?
Thanks,
--P
pat
re the blush of colour that you've added, i see that it roughly approximates to the toning that LensWork uses. the difference is, as far as i can see, that they use an algorithm that ensures that in the very dark areas there's little tonal shift (i.e., the RGB channels are approximately the same) and in the very lights to white the same is true. it is only at the mid-tones that there is a bigger separation (e.g., R 113, G 106, B 99) - thus up a difference of up to 20 on the 255 scale between R and B with G somewhere in between. Your brights (which is where it might be making the difference) still retain a pinky/warm hue - in contrast to the repost which has some nice brights which accentuates the contrast. I reckon that if you could achieve less tonal/hue separation in the darks and brights while retaining the warm tone in the mid-tones, folks would prefer the toned version. that's a lot of words for 2c!!
John