BWA Session 1 Pallets.jpg
Another for session 1 of the Creative Black and White course.
For this one, the first thing I did was to crop out the large white area to the left of the image - this took a sizeable chunk out of the image, so I decided to go to a square aspect ratio.
I then set the white balance using the paint line on the ground as a guide, and applied a black and white conversion using one of the presets from Hacking pack that was part of the bonus material (Heart of Darkness, to be precise). This was close to the look I wanted, but not exact, so I adjusted the contrast slightly, then ran the image through the Nik COLOR efex plugin - not Silver Efex, as I prefer to use the Detail extractor tool of Color efex to the Structure tool of Silver Efex, although the two are nearly identical - to bring out the grungy textures of the wood and the walls.
In Photoshop, I have a script that applies a Sepia tone that I really like, so I ran that on the image to finish it off.
BWA Session 1 Pallets.jpg
Another for session 1 of the Creative Black and White course.
For this one, the first thing I did was to crop out the large white area to the left of the image - this took a sizeable chunk out of the image, so I decided to go to a square aspect ratio.
I then set the white balance using the paint line on the ground as a guide, and applied a black and white conversion using one of the presets from Hacking pack that was part of the bonus material (Heart of Darkness, to be precise). This was close to the look I wanted, but not exact, so I adjusted the contrast slightly, then ran the image through the Nik COLOR efex plugin - not Silver Efex, as I prefer to use the Detail extractor tool of Color efex to the Structure tool of Silver Efex, although the two are nearly identical - to bring out the grungy textures of the wood and the walls.
In Photoshop, I have a script that applies a Sepia tone that I really like, so I ran that on the image to finish it off.