As you may know i do like to do the occasional black and white conversion of an image. And this landscape photography picture is no exception.

This is the processing I carried out in Nik Silver Efex Pro to the colour image I posted yesterday.

Preset

A tricky one. I wanted to pull out all the textures. I ended up going with Full Dynamic Smooth having tried all the presets. Twice.

Red, orange and yellow all did the same thing. I went with the green filter. The blue filter was a no.

Lens Falloff 2 worked nicely.

I gave the Dynamic Brightness a treat to 36%.

And I didn't like the end result so I went back and made the following adjustments to the brightness

Overall brightness - no change

Highlights -33%

Midtones +18%

Shadows +44%

Dynamic Brightness -33%

And now it looks better.

And that is that. Image done. And an interesting one at that. What do you think? Colour or black and white?

Rick McEvoy MCIOB, LBIPP

Friday 20th January 2017