Windmill Sky by Wivelrod

Photography • Historical • posted on Jun 17, 2005

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Description

I'd taken this picture a while ago but I've never been happy with it. The original colour image didn't look particulary interesting, but there was still something about it that made me want to work on it further. I'd tried various ways of converting it to Black and White, but many of them introduced alot of noise into the picture and I was very dissatisfied with the results. And then today I noticed a post in the forums about Black and White conversions, and one of the methods mentioned (a conversion method by Greg Gorman) worked really well and didn't introduce any significant noise. Having got the base Black and White image I wanted, I then turned to Levels and Curves to give it a high contrast and really bring out the clouds :) I hope you like the results. Please comment and offer up any suggestions you might have that would improve this image. Thanks for looking! Adi P.S. you can find the forum articles here (click me).

Comments (19)

Daniel7Mc

10:05PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

A fine image, very powerful!

tvernuccio

10:28PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

this is my 3rd time to look at this. it's INCREDIBLE!!!! so dramatic and powerful...OUTSTANDING photography and b/w conversion!!!!

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watapki66

11:00PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

The gorman conversion is one of my favorites, it worked well for you, glad you found it! Wonderful image!

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SoulSearcherr

11:03PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

wow..love this

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Vik9740

11:31PM | Fri, 17 June 2005

i DO really like the results.. plenty of drama!!

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tizjezzme

12:19AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

I love the feel to this.

jdvorak

12:35AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

don quixote would love you. the contrast/iamgry in this is amazing. you really did very well on this.

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firestorm

1:22AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

you've turned out a very dramatic iamge, i like this :)

cynlee

1:52AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

it was worth working on & you did a great job of converting it & bringing out the drama in the sky! :]

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Dianthus

2:04AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

Love this and looks so dramatic in B&W. Well done:)

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unstrung65

2:11AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

...very bold ! -- has to be the best windmill shot I've seen -- takes it out of it's normally seen context -- and gives it a hard dramatic look .

KiwiMiss

6:31AM | Sat, 18 June 2005

mmm I like. It's soo dramatic! Excellent postwork

Tedz

12:24PM | Sat, 18 June 2005

I like it...You have it looking so foreboding.

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Onslow

3:15PM | Sat, 18 June 2005

Nicely composed = glad you found a good way to convert to b/w

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Enmos

3:55AM | Mon, 20 June 2005

Wow moody !!! Awesome work here !! Superb !! :o)

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MaydaMason

6:38AM | Mon, 20 June 2005

so moody and terrific! wow!

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danob

10:14AM | Tue, 21 June 2005

This works a treat.. The Windmill is very much like one near me in the UK?

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Akinom

2:06AM | Tue, 28 June 2005

Just love the contrast! A wonderful silhouette and that sky is a marvel!

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sossy

12:29PM | Fri, 08 July 2005

pure dramatic and beauty! awesome and contrastful capture in b/w! it reminds me of don cichote fighting against the windmills! a style and masterpiece I love! ;o)))