Sometimes, I get in a mood to play with images in Lightroom and see what happens. This time around, it was using the Vibrance and Saturation sliders to remove color and see the “bones” of the images.
The cover photo at the top of this post was shot in rural Kentucky. The original had blues and greens and I felt those vivid colors took away from the starkness of the scene.
Below, this live oak tree in South Carolina takes on a more spooky appearance without the vivid greens and browns of the original and only a slight green tint used.
tbd
The original of this next image was all about the colors on the hills and water and sky. Take those away and the texture of the clouds and the ripples in the water take center stage.
Sometimes, a decolorized photo looks old-timey, like this one from my Scottish trip.
Which one is your favorite?
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Joel Sternfield
All wonderful!
Kentucky is a stunner.
Great work, Annie!
Shouldn’t that last one have a monster’s head and neck floating in the water? Of course, it would have to be much blurrier because no one ever gets a great photo of that.
I enjoy reimagining a photo into B&W, a refreshing change from the usual. My fave is Kentucky as I like the tonal range found within the foreground barn.
It is a tie between Kentucky and South Carolina though they are all quite lovely.
I like them all. I guess if I had to choose it would be the tree and path out to the water. I never did black and white using those sliders…I always just hit the B&W button. I’ll have to experiment.