liza wallis
Senior Member
Liz... I am a big fan of brooding photography. I was hoping to achieve some of that with these B&Ws, but I know I missed the mark on quite a few. The experimentation on what method to use to convert is really interesting I think and different methods do give decidedly different results and moods. And then some photos just are not at all suited to B&W. By the way, seeing your gallery last week was the inspiration I needed to put together my B&W gallery. I thought your photos were simply fantasticYour shots are super, full of mood and atmosphere. I actually like
photos which can convey a sense of brooding or aprehension (as
mentioned above). Not all photos should be happy, pretty pictures.
To me, photography is not just about capturing moments in time. It
is also about being "artistic" and creative, which you have surely
done.
I had the same sort of problems at first when I tried their web feature, but now I have it down to a science and I get exactly what I want out of it. I input the files as PSDs and then output with custom settings and I get the same thing i would get if I were hand optimizing and saving the files individually. I am not sure what you did, but try it this way... it really works well with the custom settings and it saves BOATLOADS of time to have Photoshop doing the dirty work.On a separate point, one thing I did note, however, was that you
were using Photoshop album creator. I started down this route with
my web site and found that even though I had already re-sized and
compressed for web using the save for web option (Imageready), when
Photoshop came to create the album (and I ticked the ooption for no
compression/resize, some of my images had actually increased in
size and the quality had gone down considerably.
Well then, we're even... the inspiration is mutualI scrapped the
album apart from keeping the thumbnails it had created, and went
and did my own thing using the save for web option. Mind you, it
took me the three evenings of work to get my web site up!! Maybe I
have too much time on my hands but I ust thought I'd pass on this
observation.
Thank you for sharing the photgraphs. Must get back out there with
the camera. Once again you've inspired me.
Best regards...
liza--www.lizawallis.comwww.lizawallis.com/photography