
Originally Posted by
peter delaney
Hi Morkel
delighted to see you enjoying and experimenting with Nik silver efex...
For me the issue is the choice of image you are choosing to convert to B&W, I have mentioned this to you before so apologies if I sound like a broken record..
Be more selective , look for strong elements within your image ,be it lines,textures,tonal range,contrast,light and shadow.... very few wildlife images will work if they do not have any of the fore mentioned elements...
Majority of young photographers seem to regard B&W as second choice, believing if its not a good colour image then it will work in B&W.
The truth is if its not a good image...then its not going to work in any medium... just delete it ,learn from the image were you went wrong ,and try again..you must be your own hardest critic..
the image itself, agree with steve regarding crop, and detail.. roads in images for me does not convey ''wilderness'' so i very rarely shoot an image with them in it.. i know that sometimes we have no choice as animals love them..
i quite like Als approach...
but for me if I am truly honest the image does not work for me..
sorry for being so blunt, but you know me well enough by now.. nothing personal, I am a big fan of your work..
peter