josephcsylvia 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Here is a Landscape shot I took in Saint Martin recently, Very high atop a mountain. This chain of mountains separates two ocean/seas. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Sooo, did the two ocean/seas wash all the color out of the mountains? Sorry, it looks like it would be a very pretty color photo. I just can't get into B&W photographs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 glitch ... double post. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlaFly 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 I like B&W Joe, and I like your pic. That makes the Florida vote 50:50. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
josephcsylvia 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Sooo, did the two ocean/seas wash all the color out of the mountains? Sorry, it looks like it would be a very pretty color photo. I just can't get into B&W photographs. it was actually just a mass amount of green no color other than green and water with the haze in the background to me this one needed to be converted, plus 75% of what I shoot is b+w! It was quite beautiful and had I had more time I would have set up a shot with filters to really saturate the sky and water, but the cars were flying behind me about two feet away, there is not one stop light on the whole island and everyone honks and passes add that to being two feet from the edge of the mountain and its hard to focus lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
josephcsylvia 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Here's the color version Mike You twisted my arm Lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlaFly 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Joe I hate to have to say I agree with Mike, but that's gorgeous! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
josephcsylvia 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Joe I hate to have to say I agree with Mike, but that's gorgeous! I agree it is definitely a beautiful place, Ive never been a fan of color, even though I make it a point to shoot in color and convert my files Later as most people do love color. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlaFly 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 If you have MS Office Picture Viewer or some such photo editing tool, you might play around with the B&W version by increasing the brightness and contrast a bit. Having seen them both, I get a better grasp of the scale of the hillsides in the color. And it reminds me of when you take a Caribbean cruise and wake up in the morning to the view of your new port of call. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2016 Oh, now THAT'S a beautiful shot. Thank you! Nothing wrong with a lot of green and blue. It's what our eyes have evolved to appreciate. It means "eat and drink" to the primitive parts of our minds. I agree that there are shots ... faces, etc. ... that look good in B&W. But those are fairly monochromatic anyway ... color just "gets in the way". For landscapes, nature shots and the like ... I need to see color. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cold 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2016 I prefer the shot in B&W (though I may have processed it a bit differently)...either way, thanks for sharing! Beautiful place. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
josephcsylvia 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2016 I prefer the shot in B&W (though I may have processed it a bit differently)...either way, thanks for sharing! Beautiful place.This is not my original cold, I had to down size it alot for this website to view it well this is the shot just switched to monochromatic. The one I edited has a lot more contrast and deeper blacks, I applied a graduated nd filter to the sky to bring out the clouds, the leading lines and shapes screamed b+w, the fully edited version did not look right attached here, maybe I need to use a photo hosting site and post it right in the post. I saw in one of the posts you do some photography yourself, how deep are you? My editing is done in Photoshop raw and silver effects when there actually edited lol thanks for the reply. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
islander727 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2016 Nice (in response to both)! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dryfly purist 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2016 Here is a Landscape shot I took in Saint Martin recently, Very high atop a mountain. This chain of mountains separates two ocean/seas. st martin landscape 2 web.jpgst martin landscape 2 web.jpg That´s a really great shot :-) :-) Terje Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
josephcsylvia 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2016 Here is a Landscape shot I took in Saint Martin recently, Very high atop a mountain. This chain of mountains separates two ocean/seas. st martin landscape 2 web.jpgst martin landscape 2 web.jpg That´s a really great shot :-) :-) Terje Thank you Terje, you have some amazing work yourself. What set up do you shoot with? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites