Bandstand

[BlackFox]

Tried to capture the mood in a local park on a cold, desolate, winter's day. I'm fascinated by how town parks are used (or not) in the modern day, as compared to when most of them were established in the Victorian/Edwardian era.

[GrahamNfk]

Kind of eerie, like after all the humans have left.

[David]

A shot of abandonment, nice atmosphere and I like the coloured railings

[NannyFerret]

I really like the editing. Nice one!

[Terry]

I like this. Very atmospheric 

[Martyn]

This is a very sad image; it's too rare nowadays to see a bandstand used for the purpose it was intended!

[fuzzyedges]

Nice use of selective colouring

[Heather]

really like this image but would like to have seen it bigger 

[ChrisLumix]

I do like the selective colour  Very subtle.

[BlackFox]

Thanks for the comments; I think I am developing a certain style.

[Korky]

A very nice image, Derek. The selective colour looks great against the trees and the sky.

 

I would've liked to have seen a larger version too.

 

Korky

[BlackFox]

That's the biggest I could get this one if resizing to max 300KB as per the requirements I'm afraid.

 

There's a bigger version on my Flickr site here, for anyone who's interested:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derektaylormono/

[ChrisLumix]

Yes, well worth seeing large!

 

On a technical note, how did you do the colour - mask off each railing, use the  magic wand to select that particular blue and 'similar', or another method entirely?

[Heather]

much better large when you can see all the detail ... very nice work. I do love your subtle colour selection work 

[BlackFox]

Chris, I use Silver Efex Pro 2.

First I do all my processing in Lightroom, then convert to mono in Silver Efex Pro 2, and do any further adjustments in there.

That's where I then set control points, in this case on a section of railing, and increase Selective Colorization I think it's called, to bring back colour. You can adjust the area affected, as well as make specific adjustments to brightness, contrast etc.

Here's how:

[ChrisLumix]

Chris, I use Silver Efex Pro 2.

First I do all my processing in Lightroom, then convert to mono in Silver Efex Pro 2, and do any further adjustments in there.

That's where I then set control points, in this case on a section of railing, and increase Selective Colorization I think it's called, to bring back colour. You can adjust the area affected, as well as make specific adjustments to brightness, contrast etc.

Here's how:

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[David]

Elements 11 or 12 do a decent conversion, but I would like a dedicated mono converter too. Does anyone know if I would need lightroom or would it work with elements 12?

[BlackFox]

It works just the same, I tried it just now in Elements 9.

Open Elements, Open the photo you want to convert. Go to the Filter tab, select Nik Software, then Silver Efex Pro 2 (if you've previously loaded it of course)