The Beauty of Years

[Eric Swenson]

I actually don't even remember taking this photo, but rather came across it in my endless sea of files after my trip to Alaska this summer.

All and any C&C is welcome. Hope you enjoy.


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Eric Swenson. 16 years young and hoping to learn as much as possible.

 

[Brian Moore]

Yes it is a nice image. It strikes me that the motion in the clouds is countered by the tranquility of the sea very nicely indeed. And one wonders what the old geezer's gazing at. Nice shot Eric.

 

[Eric Swenson]

I've put up a re-edit of the image with a fixed the tilted horizon line. I also removed artifacts from the sky that were created in the original B&W Processing.

 

[Paul Lange]

That is a great image Eric, very good. The only thing I would say, and it is just my opinion is try dodging the areas of skin so they are about 1/2 a stop lighter. I'm not sure if it will work but it's what I would try.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

I think this is fantastic! Not much more I can say on that dude.

 

[Eric Swenson]

That is a great image Eric, very good. The only thing I would say, and it is just my opinion is try dodging the areas of skin so they are about 1/2 a stop lighter. I'm not sure if it will work but it's what I would try.

I'll try it sometime, though the skin areas are already dodged a fair amount. Thanks!

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice shot and conversion Eric. I'd probably increase contrast a touch though using the levels curve in LR which would open the mid-tones up a touch.

 

[Eric Swenson]

Very nice shot and conversion Eric. I'd probably increase contrast a touch though using the levels curve in LR which would open the mid-tones up a touch.

Thus far I've actually decided to reduce the overall contrast to an extent, as the current smidgen of non-distracting contrast brings the eye to the hand as far as I've seen, where as if I increase the overall contrast and therefore sense of movement in the clouds, it pulls the focus away from the hand far more than I'd like to right now, but I'll play around and see if there's a happy medium.

Perhaps... This works?

 

[Pete Askew]

It certainly lifts it a bit. You can always hold the contrast back on the hand using a local adjustment.

 

[Paul Lange]

Hope I didn't come across as being critical, Its a great image and one that if it were mine I would work in further. I don't know how you changed the image to BW but if you used a gradient map adjustment layer you might be able to make selective changes easily by modifying the luminance and saturation of different channels.

 

[Eric Swenson]

Hope I didn't come across as being critical, Its a great image and one that if it were mine I would work in further. I don't know how you changed the image to BW but if you used a gradient map adjustment layer you might be able to make selective changes easily by modifying the luminance and saturation of different channels.

Of course not. It came across as a helpful point. I used LR 3.5 for the B&W conversion, though I haven't played with the color channels as much as I could or should. Thanks for the reminder!