I didn’t think that this construction photography image would work that well but actually like the end black and white image.

This is what I did in Nik Silver Efex Pro.

The pre-set chosen was High structure smooth

I then selected Brightness +20%

Dynamic brightness +25%

The I added a Red colour filter boosted to 84%. I am liking these filters which can transform an image.

Next I added Vignette lens fall off 3

Followed by Burn edges – all edges 1

Then, as I was not happy with the brightness of the image, I went for more Dynamic brightness, increased to +51%

Then I added a control point to the white clouds and increased the brightness by 24%

And that was that.

Here is the final client edit

And here is the RAW image taken on my Canon 5D with Canon 24-105mm lens.

I am getting a bit of a routine going here, especially liking the dynamic brightness and the colour filters, but not really liking the control points, which I need to work on.

One definite thing is that you can spend as little or as much time as you want working in software such as Nik Silver Efex. I like speedy editing. Maybe I need to change!

I am also not sure if my black and white architectural photography set will look right with construction photography images within the set – I think the construction photographs should be on their own, meaning yes I have more architectural photography work to do.

And also I might have just created a new black and white construction photography image set requirement.

Tomorrow I will post another construction photograph I have decided I am going to work on, and after that I will have a little think and see how I complete my set of 12 architectural images.

Thanks for reading this post, all about a picture of a construction site in Dorset. Tomorrow we are moving to a bigger construction site in Portsmouth.