Aperture Experiments – monochrome

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6 responses to “Aperture Experiments – monochrome”

1. 

   Kapoue

   May 6, 2009

   good picture to try a toy effect
2. 

   w00kie

   May 6, 2009

   ok, i’ll look into doing a fake tilt-shift effect in photoshop with this picture
3. 

   Calife

   May 7, 2009

   Which one fits best ? Probably the one on the B&W photo …
4. 

   kurisu

   May 7, 2009

   you have to ask yourself : “what is the predominant colour in the original version?”.
   Obviously it’s green; thus unless you want to make all greens turn black (which could be what you want to achieve, I don’t know), then avoid the green filter. The second dominant is blue, thus, same remark.
   it leaves you with orange, yellow and red.
   As a general rule, skin tones respond better to orange or yellow filters. Since your subject is not people, I personally would start with a red filter and tweak it down towards orange, with a hint of blue added for making the skyline sharper. But that’s me and I do not know what you are trying to achieve with this conversion.

   Again, those are very very rough guidelines, and for photography, there is no “right or wrong”, just many different visions of the same exposure.
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   w00kie

   May 7, 2009

   I kinda liked the red filter, the buildings look crisp and the sky is sharpish, but look at Monta-san’s face on the right… he looks like a corpse
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   kurisu

   May 7, 2009

   Then the current version of Aperture is not going to satisfy you. If you want to make localised changes, then you need something like Capture NX or an Aperture plugin from Nik Software that uses U-Point technology, like Silver Efex.