Black & White Sky Over the Malvern Hills
This is my effort at the channel mixer conversion with the red channel boosted up after taking a blue sky with a CPL.
From the top of the Malvern Hills, you can see the rest of the series at my blog.
Don’t point that at me!
A friends son at the recent polo match, he was trying to get out of the sun, shy but cute little boy.
I like the black and white effect with the grainyness, gives it a old vs new kind of feel. I tend to like B&W for youngsters.
I used lanatirs method of effective black and white conversion rather than just desaturating
Exposure: 1/1600 Aperture: f/4.5 Focal Length: 70 mm Exposure Bias: 2/3 EV ISO: 1250
Also recropped with space at the right to give the little fella somewhere to roam in. Cropping kids very tightly makes them seem rather too stationary.
