This is an attempt to capture the underlying moodiness of Stonehenge. In my minds eye I had a kind of 19th Century sepia postcard feel, emphasising the bleakness of the plain but also the mysteriousness of the henge itself.
Original shot in colour, light cloning to get rid of the edge of a car and the head of a human, conversion to B&W through channels, duplicate layer plus overlay to increase contrast, some replace colour in the clouds to emphasise the edges, shadow/highlight to get a moodier balance, re-size for DPC, USM plus use of a sepia filter (@ 70%) to add to "oldness", conversion to JPEG for submission.
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Hi Carl, overall well done. I too see the "noise, graininess, artifacting" in the clouds, especially the left side of the photo. So that probably brought your score down a bit. Have not a clue how anyone could vote it under 4 though!! Wow, really do not understand voters, rules "suggest" strongly vote on fitting the challenge FIRST, then technicals. Oh well, still a good image!!
Nice shot, Carl! While the color version is good, I do prefer the way you did this up with the sepia. I espcially like the bird - adds a bit of life to a very old piece of history. Well done!
B & W photography it's not just discarding colours. Its also keeping the colour dependencies in the gray scale. This is even more difficult to make it right than colour. Because we see in colour and B&W well requieres a lot of thought. It's not a good technical b&w but the exposure seems right -ish and the object is nice so it's an 8
The bird helps a lot. There's a good sky too. The problem with Stoonehenge, in the context of this challenge, is that we know it's old but we can't really see it. You've done well though, with the texture in the stones.
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