This image is another in my series of color conversion experiments. Is it successful? I think it is, but you tell me.
I didn’t simply remove the color, I used a full range of contrasting gray tones to tell a different story about this emerging flower. Without the greens and the reds, the image changes dramatically.
Shapes and how they relate to each other depend entirely on texture and monochrome tonality. I love B&W because the level of abstraction forces a deeper look into the subject. Most flowers and plants don’t make the transition well or at all. I like this one.
Almost crystalline, particularly with the droplets. I think it works well.
Jepp, I like it! Think it`s beautiful! Have a nice sunday!
Great shot. Who needs colour!?
Very nicely done! I like to experiment within the monochrome range, too.
This one definitely made the transition! Beautiful!
Perfection! Way to go, Great shot!
I like it a lot! Beautiful!
It’s certainly successful! I like the drops of water.
Beautiful work and processing. I like it too.
I think it was very successful. I like the way you can see the water droplets.
This is really good John. The great shapes and points really come out in black and white. I alsp like the water drops as a bonus.
you have done well
Really nice work …. beautiful, even without colors!
Yes, I think so. I don’t usually like the conversions, but I think the tonal range and the sharp water droplets worm well.
I like this, too – the odd spiky shape of the flower combined with the clearly focused water drops really make the picture.
Lovely picture!! Yes snow comes everywhere and it´s enough now! Have a nice week!
Love the content and the composition of this one. Truly an artistic endeavor!
Wow … what an amazing effect … just beautiful 😉
Hugs and blessings,
Thanks for coming by John. I like this in monochrome, but it took me a little while to decipher it. The water droplets almost look like they are moving along the twisted leaves. At first I thought the leaves were streams (very small streams) of water.
It looks very metallic, silvery; it has become a broach. A transformed image which, I suppose, is one one of your
objectives in these experiments of yours. It worked!
I think you have done a good job – plants are difficult in monochrome.
PS Since you ask – maybe I would have tried to darken the background a bit more, but I must admit I don’t know how 🙂
I use the HSL/Grayscale function in Camera Raw in PS CS4 myself.
Yes, agreed. Hard to do flowers justice with monochrome, but you succeeded beautifully here!
I’m not usually impressed with flowers in monochrome, but this one is so much more appealing in black and white. I love the contrast of shapes and the metallic glimmer the water adds. Nice shot.
Thank you. Flowers aren’t simply flowers in monochrome. They become something else. I suppose the point is that you can’t look at them the same way, you must look at them as shapes and tones and textures. Color can be a code. We see a red rose we know what it is. Or we think we do. Color can be a naming and the naming doesn’t get to the soul of a thing — ever.
Can we get to the soul of a thing with monochrome? We can try.
I completely agree with your analysis of color/B&W for flowers. This is beautiful. Part of what makes it so is not only the angles, and flower it self, but the detail you captured, and made the eye truly look at because it is a monochromatic image! Nice work!
Pretty in mono!