Boring rainy day, so play

[Guy Mancuso]

Okay raining cactus out here and bored to tears. So what to do . Play in CS4

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Hmmm. Just just playing around with B&W stuff.

Truth be told playing hooky from working on my taxes. Yuk

 

[mwalker]

Guy those look great...are you using nik silver efex?
taxes suck

 

[helenhill]

Stunning !!
Austere & Lush at the same Time....:thumbs:

 

[ecliffordsmith]

Hi Guy,

If your tax return ends up as good as these you have nothing to worry about!

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Thanks folks. All done in CS4 with a black and white adjustment layer and tone mapping the colors. Top one has a tint added. Jack taught this in Moab at the workshop and i wanted to play around some more. You can also do this in LR and C1 with similar techniques. C1 you would use the color picker and make adjustments. Been a while for LR but basically what i was doing was making it B&W than adjusting all the colors in the image. I will do a couple more later and show you the screen grab. Lot's of fun and please join me on this thread.

Back in the day I learned the Zone System taught by Fred Picker and with digital processing you can achieve some of the same effects. The last one is a classic zone system look with deep blacks and with a long tonal range to white

 

[ecliffordsmith]

Hi Guy,

Thanks for the interesting information. I have always just converted my files in C1 standard but I have, for a while now been thinking I should upgrade to the pro version.

Certainly seeing the things you, and your workshop participants do with PP is an eye opener.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

The Pro version certainly has some power to it. Ed what camera's are you using.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

This one is done in C1 pro which takes a bit longer since the adjustments are very fine with the color picker so the sky for example i did three times to darken that shade of blue but very nice results. I used the B&W Panchromatic style to start than worked it from there with the color picker. This one has a little more bite to it. These are all MF so you can see the big DR in them which sometimes i have to crunch down to get solid black.

 

[ecliffordsmith]

Hi Guy,

I use an M8. This is how I got to be using C1 standard in the first place.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

C1 and the M8 are a great combination. C1 does like the higher ISO's with the M8 better than anything else i have used.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

I think you can trail the Pro version which you may want to try out

 

[ecliffordsmith]

Guy,

That last image is remarkable.

Thanks for the tip, I think I will try the pro version out.

Regarding the M8 high ISO I must admit I have never had any real complaints about it. Sure, I would like a 5000 and 10000 but maybe that will be there in a M9 ???

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Little combo first worked in C1 than in CS4 and added a blue tint to it. This one was tough to work but interesting result

 

[jonoslack]

Hi everyone

I should be working too!

I'm afraid you just can't get the scenery around here, so I have to do with muddy tracks and murky ponds.
these are shot with the M8 and WATE, processed in aperture and then silver efex pro.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

I just have cactus here and sand. Yuk but here is Sedona with some nice scenery

 

[DougDolde]

No rain or cacti in Payson. Just snow and pine trees. View out my dining room window.

 

[Don Hutton]

Get your shovel Doug...

 

[Don Libby]

After listening to the wind howling last night work up to find several inches of the white stuff this morning of course it's just about all melted by now (1:30). Still cold here in Tucson. Talk about being upside down - Chicago was 60 while we'll about 1/2 that.

don

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Yea AZ got dumped on. My mother -in - law is stuck here until tomorrow because of snow in Prescott. Like about a foot of snow and for Arizonians that is like 6 ft to our snowy states. Looks like Doug maybe outside shoveling out Payson and that is only 90 miles north of me