I always wanted to make once a REAL black and white image (and no gray). I saw already a few of such examples on Shutterchance. To some of the SC members I even promised to do that: well here it is :-)
Shot at the end of November last year. I pointed the camera upwards. Of course the weather was very dull. The clouds back lit the tree, so you see only a silhouette.
TECH-INFO: I only enhanced the contrast and cropped it a bit in DxO Optics Pro. Probably I didn't need to turn it into B/W because there was as good as no color anyway. Also this is not a 100% pure B/W image, the histogram still shows some tonal variations.
November Tree
I always wanted to make once a REAL black and white image (and no gray). I saw already a few of such examples on Shutterchance. To some of the SC members I even promised to do that: well here it is :-)
Shot at the end of November last year. I pointed the camera upwards. Of course the weather was very dull. The clouds back lit the tree, so you see only a silhouette.
TECH-INFO: I only enhanced the contrast and cropped it a bit in DxO Optics Pro. Probably I didn't need to turn it into B/W because there was as good as no color anyway. Also this is not a 100% pure B/W image, the histogram still shows some tonal variations.
I think this is black and pale grey. I suppose the simplest way is to convert to a 2 colour image.
LightningPaul: It's indeed (very) pale gray. I mostly try to prevent blowing out the whites, in order to print the pictures. Blown out areas look like holes in an image when using a white background. I guess I got stuck in my work flow habits here because 100% white would be totally OK here. Converting to a two color image does not work well here because the tiniest branches will disappear. It sounds strange but I experienced this here.
Wow, wow wow and wow again!
Great graphical result, I only wish I could look at it in a larger format.
Beautiful result. Hope you don't mind I'll twit about it
(see here - http://twitter.com/ilanbr)
LightningPaul: Thanks! I can send the large format image to you if you like.
I heard of twitter but I've never tried it before. I guess I'll have to start one day
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