Can anyone do a contrasty BW? I can't seem to get it right.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blcknsp...32167/sizes/l/

thanks!

I used the Black and White filter in Photoshop CS3. Played with the slider, especially the yellow until i got the tones I wanted, then I used the brightness/contrast filter and added about +85% contrast. Lastly I dodged the midtones in her eyes at 20% added a vignette and cropped slightly from the left side to remove the white blob.

Thanks for the play-by-play. I'm going to tackle this processing once and for all tonight!

my version: no longer exists.

started to get really noisy on me. I gave up. this is where I got after 5 min.

Next time, loose the towel and i"ll work longer!

My take...



Ended being close to shawns evidently.

--kC

This is really neat to see everybody's takes on this.

sure would be nice if the person who started this thread stopped back by and said thanks.

whoa, forgot about this thread. thanks for the input guys, I ended up putting off this photo, but yea, definitely cool to see different versions of it.

I'll give it a go.

I thought Shawn's was the best, but it's not as "high contrast" as some of the others.