Red Heaven

Posted by Eric Fry (Houston, TX, United States) on 16 August 2008 in Landscape & Rural.

I had felt that this was a nice scene, but it was very dull in color, and no amount of saturation made it look right. It was just waiting for me to learn how to do monochrome correctly...

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Eric

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Comments (11)

Magda from Vancouver, Canada

beautiful place.... it looks great in B&W! :) nice composition.

16 Aug 2008 5:23am

Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States

Eric - - - well done, sir.

16 Aug 2008 6:27am

saeed from ahwaz, Iran

That s beautiful Eric! nice scene and nicely done in B/W! sorry that I can't leave any comments this days, I have problems with my connection to internet....
Best wishes :)

16 Aug 2008 7:24am

Saeed from -, Iran

WoW...! Nice B&W Work...

16 Aug 2008 7:42am

Kylie Greenan from Richmond, Australia

....and a superb mono it is. I love the detail in the waves and the clouds, beautifully processed Eric!

16 Aug 2008 7:55am

Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom

Yes, I can well imagine this struggled in color . . amazing how removal of color releases all this delicious detail. And nicely converted, too.

16 Aug 2008 8:35am

@Ronnie 2¢: Absolutely, Ronnie, this shot was a nice scene in my eyes, but had a pale sky, water, and sand draining the life from the bright red fireworks box. It had a nice quality to it, but was completely bland and lifeless in color, and any color adjustments looked fake. I'm so glad I learned how to do this type of conversion, because I can now get some useful images in any kind of outdoor light situation. A great tool to have in my repertoire!

Thanks for the comment!

Veronelle from Lens, France

beautifull B&W shot

16 Aug 2008 2:36pm

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States

a wonderful pp job here Eric -- beautiful tones! i love that silvery sky!

16 Aug 2008 2:55pm

Marion from Nanaimo, BC, Canada

Isn't it wonderful that we have those options now with our editing programs. Sometimes some of our pictures just beg for the b&w or sepia treatment. This is excellent Eric. Sometimes the b&w picture adds so much to one's imagination. Great shot.

16 Aug 2008 5:15pm

Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom

Isn't it strange, we buy the best - latest equipment with 24bits D/A convertors and all the other important details, then ditch the color from our because we prefer B&W. How far we have come to rediscover monochrome.

Excellent image Eric, nice rolling surf.

16 Aug 2008 9:25pm

Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

I agree with all of the above!!! Excellent image and really pleased you were able to do it justice in the end...good on ya:-))

17 Aug 2008 1:27am

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