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    Hi following the B/W route, we should or better the mods should open a B/W forum in here.

    Tried again something "creative ", wonder if this working for your eyes?

    EOS 1Dx
    EF 300 F4 IS L
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    F 6,4 / ISO 1600 / 1/ 320 sec

    Processed in RPP , color routine in PS , then used a plugin for B/W conversion , used a B/W slide film preset that i have used in film time,made it some kind high key in PS and added a coloration called Bromid in the plugin just to the blacks. Cropped for comp from all sides slightly

    What does the critical folks in here think ?

    Leave your comments and thoughts.

    Cheers Andreas

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    Hi Andreas - Another one I've looked at a few times and I like the gritty body against the high key bg. For me this has a similar problem to the last one and I think it's that I want either a little head turn to engage or a bit of life in the eye. I think the problem is actually more the pp on the eye than the lack of head turn. I generally like profile images but find the eye here somewhat disturbing, more 3D and glasslike than realistic. It could just be me though.

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    Dear Andreas,

    I think we have already turned Wildlife into B/W Wildlife! Let us call it BWW

    This is ART, Andreas! What plugin did you use? The outcome is outstanding, very well done! I like that the grass is visible (barely, but still there) on the LHS. Beautiful detail where it counts, what a stunner!!!

    Kind regards,
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    Thanks ladies,
    appreciate your comments .
    Rachel - i like the eye as is, love those glossy in other images presented here, i think i would back off by 20% of the effect.
    Gabriela - the plugin is called " B/W Styler" from PhotoWiz.Most of the work was done in PS, very little in the plugin, but as always you can get a demo and try it out.

    Thanks again for your honest critiques.

    Andreas

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    I think this is unusual for me. I quite like the feel to this. I must say I would love to see a color version of this. TFS

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    Hi Andreas,

    lots has been said already. Tech wise I do not need to add anything in here. The conversion looks great. Just there white areas in the face I might would turn down a tad, or at least at the edge to the BG. Might also help to let the nearly fainted grass come through a tad more. Not sure. Just to let it satin out a bit more. This is just me, IMHO

    Have a great eve

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    Nice to see all the detail in this animal which I hadn't seen before. It almost looks like one of those illustrative plates from an old book. I like it, and it would be even better once the white areas on the face which run into the background are looked at, as has been mentioned.
    Ed

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    Hi Andreas, interesting comment that Ed made about it looking like an illustrative plate, as my first thought was in the early days of airbrushing and with that 'texture' almost something that Roger Dean might have produced, now I really am showing my age.

    I don't dislike the treatment, but I'm not sure about the 'hint/bleeched out' of grass in the LHS, also I'm not 100% on the crop, however I do quite like it.

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    Hi Carl, Anette,Ed and last but not least Mr. Detail.
    Thank you for your comments and observation , think you are right with the whites, should have avoid it.Will not rework.

    Carl in color it is looking really boring, so i will not post it as color version , sorry.
    Steve - re crop , what would you suggest ?

    THanks again , Andreas

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    Andreas, it's a difficult one, I've tried adding canvas to the top, bottom & LHS with square, 5x4, etc crops and it just doesn't work. I just wonder if it's because the head is always too big within the alternative crops, so thinking about that, perhaps concentrating on the head may be an alternative option, as that is where all the detail, form & texture is? However, it's just one take and I'm sure others will have their own thoughts too, I hope.

    Kept it small for IQ, but you get the idea, however quickly done on the MB Pro, WDYT?

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    Hi Steve,
    works quite nice, it is a good alternative for my crop.
    I left the body in because i like the texture that i was able to achieve from this very difficult fur, with all the very short hair with almost no variation in color , just depending on the light how it hits the body.

    But just thanks.

    Goose image ?Would be nice for a comment by you.

    Cheers Andreas

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    I left the body in because i like the texture that i was able to achieve from this very difficult fur, with all the very short hair with almost no variation in color , just depending on the light how it hits the body.
    That's fine.


    It's in the 'pending pile' you are no. 14 in the queue.
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    Steve , if you are that busy with stupid images from folks , all over the world, who wants to have your thoughts to even more stupid images, i will stop annoying you with this

    Cheers Andreas

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    I really like this, being the combination of a very rare antelope and a technique which makes it look like a pencil drawing. When I first saw it I certainly thought it looked like it could have come out of one of those old books the explorers used to make with the drawings of all the strange creatures they found. As Ed noted as well.

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