Posted by John Freeman on November 18, 2014 at 10:38 PM
I shot this pano on Memorial Day from Trail ridge. Wanted to get you all's opinion of which is the better version B&W or Color?
This is a 6 image stitch. Each image is shot at f-9.0, 1/800th, ISO100, 200mm
Posted by Ken Henke on November 19, 2014 at 8:34 AM
B&W to focus on the tones.
Posted by Monika Chace on November 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM
B&W, but it looks like you lost a fair amount of detail in the clouds in the conversion.
Posted by Scott Fricke on November 19, 2014 at 1:14 PM
I think B&W is the way to go, you have some nice tones there.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on November 21, 2014 at 9:40 AM
John, the B&W works well. My suggestions might be to add some more contrast in the clouds and lighten the foreground rocks as their massive darkness is what grabs my eye from the lighter mountain. In the color version, the exposed tops of the far peaks have a blue-grey tint that seems to nicely draw my eye to them. In the B&W, maybe they need to be darker to achieve that pull.
Posted by Bob Miller on November 22, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Well pointed out Doug. I think the BW works best but need a little tweaking.
Posted by John Freeman on November 24, 2014 at 10:27 PM
Thanks for all your feedback. Doug, I agree that the foreground rocks could be lighted up a bit. This was a bit of a difficult shot to work with in the fact that the sun was peeking through the clouds onto the far mountains while the closer mountain on the right was much darker along with the foreground rocks. Would you recommend a Dodge & Burn technique to increase contrast on far mountains? I also have TK Masks but have never thought about if they would be useful for a B&W.
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6 repliesThis is a 6 image stitch. Each image is shot at f-9.0, 1/800th, ISO100, 200mm