Royal Fern (Osmunda Regalis) II

Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 27 July 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

The same plant as shot earlier, now in B&W from another angle. I used a digital green filter in the same color as the plant to let it contrast more against the background which is of a darker and more brownish green. This result makes me decide to use B&W more often, but not always. I tried the previous posting in B&W but its colors appeared to be essential.

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Comments (8)

Art Monkey from Salt Spring Island, Canada

this looks really good in b&w it really shows the contrast of the plants

27 Jul 2007 5:16am

@Art Monkey: Thanks, I'm also very happy with the picture because the plant looks like silver jewelry.

stijn from brugge, Belgium

i dont hink i would have used a green filter but the leaves look nice

27 Jul 2007 9:23pm

@stijn: Dank voor uw opmerking, maar wat zou u gebruikt hebben, helemaal geen filter? Ik geef toe dat het nu wat onnatuurlijk overkomt, en ik heb een "strijd" met mezelf gevoerd over fotoshop-achtige middelen om foto's te verfraaien en ik ben hier een beetje gezwicht. Hoe denkt u daarover?

LuisRodrigues from Lisbon, Portugal

Nice B & W!

27 Jul 2007 9:53pm

@LuisRodrigues: Thanks, Luis! I wrote (in Dutch) to Stijn that I had a "struggle" with myself about instruments such as filters and other "artificial means" to manipulate photographs. How do you think about it?

chacha from United States

cool b&w

28 Jul 2007 1:55am

stijn from brugge, Belgium

ik gebruik photoshop volop het is het enige proccessing dat je kan doen bij digitaal werk ... bij film zou je er van verschieten oeveel ze niet kunne aanpassen en dan zeggen dat het niet "ge-edit" is dus photoshop is niet slecht of cheaten ... met filters op kleuren moet je spelen en niet 1 kiezen dat dat draait meestal nogal standaar uit

28 Jul 2007 9:29am

@stijn: Bedankt, ik snap het, ik ga het binnenkort leren want ik hoor dat het nogal ingewikkeld is, maar ik ben benieuwd.

Evie from Fairfax, United States

I like the strong contrast between the leaves and the background. B&W works nicely for this one as it helps me to examine the lines and shapes and not get distracted by the colors.

28 Jul 2007 3:22pm

oot skoot from St. Paul, United States

Try not to overuse B&W. I feel like B&W can be used as an "easy out" for photographers to make shots more dramatic. I like the layers and texture in this shot.

28 Jul 2007 10:28pm

HorseRotorVator from Newton, United States

I love the light faces standing out front and the fields just melt in the background. Ah, I'm not as good at looking artistically at pictures as you are pal. :)

30 Jul 2007 11:25pm

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