First of all can I say this is nothing personal against any specific member. When I started this thread it was meant as a generalisation and was not aimed specifically at any one member or photo.
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Originally Posted by greenbunion
2. My reaction to John's post was to suggest he ask about my technique first, and then criticise when the facts are available as he was suggesting something I had already done.
5. The shot in question was taken using a D200 in RAW mode - opened in Aperture with some sharpening and saturation and a tiny crop. Then exported to CS3 where I converted to b/w using the new black and white mixer (which is fantastic!). I applied a red filter and then some selective burning and dodging. A little unsharp mask and then back to aperture. Back once more to photoshop as a jpeg and conversion to greyscale to make it smaller to upload to this forum - phewww!
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With all due respect you have to comment on the image you see at the time you see it. Asking how an image was achieved before you comment defeats the object of the exercise, especially as some members only visit the site once a week if that. Surely it is the final image that counts, not how you arrived at it.
I take onboard your comments as to the process you went through to create the image, but as I don’t use “Aperture” nor for that matter have I actually seen it, I don’t know what its capabilities are or how it achieves them. Likewise I don’t use “CS3”.
Because of that I cannot comment on your post processing technique because I don’t use the applications involved. I can only comment on the image I see at the time I see it.
The suggestion that you do a full Black and White conversion is purely my own personal preference, i.e. it is what I would have done. That doesn’t mean to say it is right, what it means is that in my opinion Whiter whites’ and Blacker blacks’ would improve the image.
The picture itself is a good picture, it’s just that personally I would have emphasised the black and white more.
But at the end of the day it is down to personal choice. There is no right or wrong in this.