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ctitanic said:

Here are some landscape pictures I shot this weekend. Pictures are edited to maximize the effect and in some cases the sky was replaced using Luminar AI.

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Archibald said:

Interesting... I didn't know you had fall colors in Florida.

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ctitanic said:

Black and White version of one of the original pictures

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ACEkin said:

Based on the original, this version seems unduly dark with much less contrast. It may be the B&W conversion process you are using that is doing it, unless you wanted to suppress the tonal structure.

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ctitanic said:

Learning…

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B&W conversion in Adobe Lightroom a better flexible way 5 steps

How to convert color photographs to B&W in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom with more control and less noise

www.keptlight.com

ACEkin said:

If I may, I will offer the method that I developed many years ago and still use:

B&W conversion in Adobe Lightroom a better flexible way 5 steps

How to convert color photographs to B&W in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom with more control and less noise

www.keptlight.com

Not all tools work for everyone, see if it may work for you. It is not a rule, but a tool.

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ACEkin said:

If I may, I will offer the method that I developed many years ago and still use:

B&W conversion in Adobe Lightroom a better flexible way 5 steps

How to convert color photographs to B&W in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom with more control and less noise

www.keptlight.com

Not all tools work for everyone, see if it may work for you. It is not a rule, but a tool.

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ctitanic said:

I basically like the darkness of his method but may be I went to dark and I lost contrast in the process. Also, I don think now that I’m checking it again that I picked the wrong picture to play around B&W.

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ACEkin said:

If the mood fits, darkness should not be avoided. Your frame can convert to a nice B&W with sufficient contrast, bright areas, and tonal structure. Keep in mind that as you go through the conversion process, one of the tools at your disposal is the white balance. As you shift the white balance sliders, colors change around and may yield a better tonal structure. That's why we used to use colored filters in the B&W days. Here is a pair of images, I converted the original into the monochrome you see and even added the slight toning in the conversion stage, not added via color grading. (Vetrans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI) Feel free to download the original and apply a different B&W conversion method if you like.

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