On the Mountain
It’s been nearly a month since I’ve posted a B&W capture of one of my daughters, so here’s a new one. I made this capture as we were climbing recently. She was patiently waiting for her turn on the rope and spontaneously looked up toward the camera as I shot this.
In addition to converting to black and white in post-processing, I added a small amount of lens blur everywhere but the face. I did this to further accentuate the sharpness and detail of the eyes. I also darkened the background area to minimize the distraction away from the subject.
2 Comments
Very beautiful portrait. Could you please elaborate on the method you use for black and white conversion?
| Ron | July 2, 2006 at 10:54 am
“please elaborate on the method you use for black and white conversion?”
Here’s my system for converting color photos to b&w Photoshop:
1. Add a new Channel Mixer adjustment layer
2. Check the Monochrome checkbox on the lower left of the channel mixer box
3. Adjust the sliders to create the black & white tone you desire. I generally make sure that all three of the sliders add up to 100%
| LeggNet | July 2, 2006 at 1:16 pm