Took a photo of an old school house yesterday and converted it to black & white. Looked okay...but I wanted something more...
I tried Sepia and duotones and tritones and nothing looked quite right. Finally I added a blue filter at 25% and erased it from everywhere but the sky. So, my question is...does it look odd? Silly? Or does it give it a punch? I cannot make up my mind. Let 'er rip...
Jackie, I kind of got the same thing when I was playing around...my problem is I don't really like the flatness of the sky once I applied the tones to it. Maybe I'm trying too hard to get the sky to have some kind of luminance to it when it's in b&w.
I'll sleep on it and see what I think in the morning. Thanks for trying!
Well, I wasn't going to say this but I have a small problem with the bell. If you try to lighten up the image on the inside of the bell area there is what appears to be the shape of a man's face. Seriously. It freaked me out enough that I darkened it and walked away! Yikes!!!