Neva Palazzo (One photo - three versions. Quest for appealing monochrome)

in Colour / Black&White10 months ago (edited)

(one photo - three versions)

I still havent got the time / energy to venture into processing of my captures from the recent boat trip across Neva river (620 files - 10 Gb - indeed, it will be a bit time consuming, haha!)

Today in the morning, before going to my office, I dragged one capture into Photoshop and made some clickes... actually there were many clicks cause my captures turned out wrong. See, I tried to use my newly-ortained Circular Polar filter, but did not succeeded. Except of getting juicy and saturated captures I got it pale and overexposed... which does not make the processing easy, fast and resulting good.

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The 1st picture is a mix of manually edited layers.

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The 2nd one I used some pre-settings for B-W conversion in the current Photoshop Camera Raw version I have. Still not 'one click and push it to production, go go go', but it was faster and less efforts... and I rather say I am after this version after all - it has some smooth and vintage / retro feeling.

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And here is the original capture (just slightly edited to save as jpg). Which editing version you would prefer best? I would really appreciate your pick and share Hive PIZZA with you... as always.

Thanks for walking with me, see you next time.

location: St.Petersburg, Russia June 2025 natural light
camera/lens: Canon 5dm3 Canon 70-200mm raw-conv
f/2.8 t 1/1600 ISO 400 --



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The first version is better.
The sky didn't work out anyway, so the color photo loses.

The 1st, you mean, the darker and more contrast one?

Well, then, manual work seems paid off. 🙂 Thank you!
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Greetings @qwerrie ,

Your work paid off handsomely....the first photograph strikes bleujay as a classic...just splendid!

Kind Regards,

Bleujay

Grazie! you are the second who give a vote for that one. 😍 Nice! (I cannot but be very subjective about that, as always about art). I will show more pics from that boat trip, it was refreshing visually and fruitful.
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Nicely done on the retro conversion, that came out really nice. I know the feeling of over saturated photos, a lot of items I sell online are a constant challenge with lighting...

Great job!
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I know the feeling of over saturated photos, a lot of items I sell online are a constant challenge with lighting...

...especially when its white on white, or black on black xD
well, this was an easy case and I had good lighting -
just peformed not well with the filter. I have yet to get used to it.

!PIZZA and !BEER your way, have a great weekend! 😜

Getting black just right is always a challenge, especially in clothing. White on white is a pain as well, fortunately my phone's camera helps out in those scenarios. But it's still more work that should be required...
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