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    Hi Community and specially B/W specialist Morkel E.

    Inspired by Morkel my next B/W try, posted this image already as color version some time ago.

    WDYT? All you people out there.

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    Processed in RPP + PS / FF

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    Hi Andreas,
    This looks great, I like the wet look and the water droplets falling off the ears. Very good sharpness and very well executed B&W. Cheers
    Sanjeev

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    Hi Andreas, nice to see people being inspired by others, cool.

    I like the shot and the 3/4 view. The trailing water is nice, but for me, it's that slight twist of the trunk that makes it, good detail and sharpness where it counts. I might be tempted to run a small amount of NR to the BKG and I'm not a lover of the faded vignette, personally I don't think it adds anything to the image, but all personal taste. I'd like to see more of that choppy water in front.

    Now you have converted it, do you think there is enough tonal range within the subject and which version do you like best and why?

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    Great textures and the curled up trunk works really nicely. Always amazing to see how much fun these guys have in the water. I am also not a fan of the vignette but as Steve says its personal...Nice one Andreas!

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    Thanks guys for stopping , watching and leaving a comment.

    Steve - do you mean extending the tonal range ? i do not understand exactly how to to do ! lighten the mid tones in the elephant ? Did not realize the slight halo!!

    Thanks Andreas

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    Andreas, because a percentage of the elephant has shadow and then in the conversion the whole subject tonally, is 'dark' nothing you can do, it's just how it is, therefore converting to B/W I just wonder if there is enough total range ie quarter tone, half tone, three quarter tone for it to work as a B/W? Others may feel, quite rightly, it's OK, just raising a thought, be good to get Morkel's thoughts too as you said, as he's the one that predominately posts most of the B/W's.
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    Now i know what you mean, thank you for clarification.

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    Nice take here Andreas. I sometimes resort to using the "burned-out" vignette, but I'm not too sure it's adding much here, as the BG is already bright/white with the ellie quite dark, so for me the rest of the image already acts as a natural vignette here. I like the stark contrast here - I made all my early conversions high in contrast and it took me a while to discern where it works and where not. Here I feel it works well, as does the high structure on the ellie. Perhaps I would dodge the deepest blacks on the elephant a tad for more detail in those areas.


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    Morkel , sorry means "FULL FRAME "

    The vignette is not that great, sometimes i try stuff , and got hit by others to open the eyes and view it from a different perspective . I would not do it again with this image.
    But at least i try . I find it very difficult to produce a really good B/W image. Will go on from time to time.

    Cheers Andreas
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