Moody sky and trees

[Iansky]

Out and about locally yesterday and grabbed some B&W images mostly of trees. The moody skies added to the images but it was a mixed bag with rain later on.

Took just the 24-70 f4 OSS - superb lens that delivers great images.

 

 

 

 

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[serdor]

Spectacular, a truly beautiful sky, great for doing this kind of images

[Iansky]

Thanks serdor, it is a fabulous subject when the clouds are present and I think B&W works better than colour for this image.

[thefsb]

Very good.

The one above reminds me of the paintings of a friend of my parents when I was little. My sister may still have one—other than that I doubt I'll see one again.

Can you say anything about the B&W development? Tools or tricks worth knowing?

[Chrissie]

My naïve approach would be, to turn the color saturation slider towards zero. (?)

And then maybe play with the "light" adjustment, to differentiate the bright parts, i.e. clouds.

[Iansky]

Thanks gents for the feedback.

The image was processed from Raw in LR then moved across to Photoshop where I have Silver Efex Pro 2 as a plug in that I used to convert to B&W, I then add the border using the Frameshop plugin.

[thefsb]

I tried Silver Efex when Google first made it free. It's good but I've done very little with B&W since going digital.

I don't get tired of looking at this photo. It points out features from many centuries of social and economic history while leaving all the space I need to imagine details and/or ponder what I know of that history.

[Yeti]

Very Nice photo.... shades of Ansel Adams?!