That sounds like a lot of work. But, you are getting the reuslts you want so that is the important thing. I'lI'm just as stubborn and will spend a lot of time with a picture if I have something specific in mind in terms of editing. Thanks for the note of explanation. Good luck with your HC pictures. Take good care. MAry
First off Mary, I would like to thank you for taking the time and commenting on so many of my images. It honors me greatly that you take the time and really look at my portfolio.
Because of my time constaints and wanting to develop my editing skills and spend more time photographing and editing, I do not respond to comments normally and rarely view posts at Usefilm any more. I do read all comments, particularly any having to do my High Contrast images.
I felt I needed to focus on a area that I enjoy the most and that is the HC images such as this one.
I stumbled on the techniques for HC in trying to rescue shots that I felt were of good composition and interesting but photographically poor (out of focus/over/under exposed). Sometimes they come out good quickly by just putting it into high contrast tools in my editing program, others require adjusting saturation and color levels first until I get the right isolation I want in High Contrast. I finally touch up unwanted noise & clean out dirty areas to highlight what I want the image to be. A lot of trial and error. When it comes out right it looks like a nice pen and ink hand drawn artwork and it's worth it.
Again, thank you for your interest. It is viewers like you that motivate me to continue to improve.
You have all these B&W's with isolated features like the treees in this one. You must have a trick up your sleeve. I have trouble isolating things like this. MAry
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