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As announced earlier today on the blog, here's now the first image in a little series of bays.

Editing colour images somehow was always relatively easy to me, but B&W images felt always impossible. Inspired by and with some help of my friend Kai, I finally managed to produce a few B&W images which I totally liked. I was surprised though, how much more difficult it is, to create a pleasing B&W image. I have had been working on this for quite a while. Every minor adjustment was followed by some serious drooling about the result.

Either I managed to settle, and here it is (which actually doesn't mean, that this is the final version....)

I hope you like this one as much as I do.

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Aperture: F16
Exposure Time: 8 sec
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
ISO: 50
Exposure Bias: 0
Shooting Mode: Aperture priority
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment

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Comments:

Fantastic toning and depth to this, first rate B&W. Can't say much more than I really like this image :)

Posted by Thatch on September 09, 2009 at 12:43 AM EEST #

This is a great photo. Nicely compose. Excellent use of the low angle.

Posted by Roland Allen on September 09, 2009 at 05:37 AM EEST #

Besides the stunning b/w image that this makes... the first thing I noticed about this image was that it was a different kind of crop than you have had in a while. Usually your crops are much longer in the horizontal or vertical than the other... but in this case it is more of the traditional crop. So I was happy to see you break out of your box... with both the b/w and the crop. It is a beautiful photograph.

Posted by Debbie Hartmann on September 09, 2009 at 06:00 AM EEST #

I love the way you have toned this photo!

Posted by professional retouching on September 09, 2009 at 03:36 PM EEST #

awesome!

Posted by frisky on September 09, 2009 at 04:03 PM EEST #

Very nice. Love this shot

Posted by Navin Harish on September 11, 2009 at 02:44 PM EEST #

brilliant! so many good details to stare at!

Posted by crash on September 11, 2009 at 04:37 PM EEST #

Grossartige Tonung des Fotos

Posted by Mirco on September 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM EEST #

well, b&w is also a mystery for me. As much as I know the rules of colour editing, b&w is so...mysterious. I'm happy that you've managed such a great effect here.

Posted by Joanna on September 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM EEST #

Tolle s/w Arbeit. Kontraste, Zeichnung, passt alles und die leichte Silbertönung is hervorragend.

Posted by Uwe on September 15, 2009 at 11:15 PM EEST #

I really like the greenish touch that you use here. Another outstanding work.

Posted by Mirko Herzner on October 21, 2009 at 09:08 AM EEST #