Ken Norton wrote:
> As to Moose's image... I spent a few minutes working with it and concluded
> that is a composition which doesn't warrant B&W conversion well. There is
> absolutely no way that I could fine to separate the little tree from the
> background. The background wasn't blurred enough to separate subject from
> background and the brightness level was also the same. I couldn't even pick a
> color to lighten or darken to separate the subject from the background.
> The image just flattens and doesn't have any dimensionality to it to give me
> anything to look at. Not being critical (OK, maybe a little), but the picture
> didn't do anything for me at all.
>
I agree. You could have just asked and I'd have told you that was the
case. It was an image I hadn't even bothered to process from RAW. It's
better in color, but nothing to get excited about.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Miscellaneous&image=_MG_0441cria.jpg>
I chose it for illustration simplly because it was one I found that was
filled with redwood foliage, so one could see what it looks like.
> I'm not picking on Moose, here.
Nor do I feel picked on.
> Trust me, I've got hundreds (if not a few thousand) B&W images that are
> exactly like that. It looked great in the
> viewfinder, but somehow it didn't translate to anything even remotely
> interesting in print and those that I think DO make it other people find
> BORING!
>
Yup, it was such a cute little redwood tree in person with human 3D
vision ...
Perhaps this will help. It's the shot just before the little tree.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Miscellaneous&image=_MG_0440criia.jpg>
And in B&W, there's no problem with differentiation of foreground and
background.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Miscellaneous&image=_MG_0440criiabw.jpg>
Moose
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