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Hi:

Just some photos I took today. Haven't had much time to PP them, so comments on their merit, what they lack, need, etc. appreciated. I do know not all carry the same look throughout--I was going for the slightly soft, dark tones, look--and one or two may need a bit of cropping and/or straightening.

I previously did a study in sepia, linked in my signature, these are in black and white.

Thanks, for looking.























-james

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I'd say things are looking a bit flat here, you need to reveal some of the shadow detail and bring out more contrast in the sky. The data is there, its just a matter of showing it off.

Hope you don't mind me showing my take on your shot. I used the shadow/highlight tool in PSCS, pretty much max on the shadow and about 25% on the highlight. Then I adjusted the levels slightly to bring up the black values to give it some more key.

 
Firestorm_Westy said:
These are great.

What sort of lighting did you use for the portrait shots? Is this a
studio set-up?

Do you use Channel mixer for B&W conversions?

Sorry for the questions, but your B&W portraits are excellent!

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Thanks for the compliments. The second shot and last shot are both shot in a studio. All the others use natural light (perhaps with a squirt of flash to give some catch lights).

Lighting wise for the last portrait, it was back lit. A soft box was placed 45 degrees BEHIND the model then bounced back on to her face using a large reflector. This gave a very soft natural light - as close to immitating day light as I could achieve at the time.

The other studio shot was simply a softbox, raised as high as I could (which wasn't very high due to the low ceiling in the studio I was using) above the model and tilted downwards. No fill or hair light was used - a single light shot.

My conversion technique now is exclusively via the luminosity channel in LAB mode. I used to use channel mixer, but found it just doesn't give consistent results. So I'm a LAB conversion man now.

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