2nd Video Tutorial - Barn in B&W w/Lightroom 3

 

I decided to go ahead and re-process the same barn image used in the first tutorial but with Adobe’s Lightroom 3. As with most post processing there is more than one way to achieve a desired result. The final image should come from your vision – the tools are just a means to get there. These two video tutorials allow you to compare different ways of performing B&W conversion and basic image tonal adjustments to reach a common vision. To see the video, you can click here or on the image above.

The image below is the one processed before using Silver Efx Pro. It is linked to the first video.

Feel free to give me any feedback.

Dreamscapes

I recently purchased Andre’ Gallants' book “Dreamscapes”. Andre is a protégé of Freeman Patterson and his book contains a set of wonderful images he created based on overlaying different images. If you are looking for some new inspiration I highly recommend it.

I have included a couple images inspired by this book.

Blog images:

1. This one is very much a vertical mimic of the cover shot of the book. Just the first thing that popped to mind.
2. A different kind of mirror image. One in which the image is copied mirrored and overlaid completely on the first.
3. This is an overlay of one image of a building with a close-up of the building’s texture. These texture overlays are popular today but have been around quite a while.

1st Video Tutorial – Barn in B&W w/Silver Efx Pro

 

As I promised in my previous blogs I have created my first video tutorial. It demonstrates the conversion of a color HDR image into an HDR Black and White image using Nik Software’s Silver Efx Pro plus a bit of Color Efx Pro. Note that the video is HD so when you go to the Vimeo sight right click on the video and select full screen. in the popup menu.

Click here to go to the video tutorial

It isn’t perfect, but hopefully you will find it useful. Please feel free to leave me feedback – it will help me produce better videos as time goes on.