Exercise 17.Colours in to tones 1

In this exercise I had to pick two photographs that had strong contrasting colours and then I had to produce two different black and white versions.  To do this I had to adjust the tones and colours in two ways one lightening one and colour and darkening the other and then for the second reversing the effect with the other dominate colour.

For the first photograph I chose a picture that I had taken for another assignment.

There is a clear red and green focus in this shot.

The first black and white conversion has the red contrast slider to the highest level and the green to the lowest.

The second version has the opposite;the red at the lowest setting and the green at the highest.

The experiment has shown that there are two very different effects and therefore two very different photographic versions created by changing the contrast of the colours.  As red is the dominant colour the version with the low red has effectively created picture that is unusable, the first version with the high contrast red is a much better version has all the detail of the hydrant can be seen and the background is faded away.

The the second attempt I used a photograph that I had previously used on another course that was looking at the colour relationships.  I though that the strong blue and yellow in the shot would be ideal for a black and white conversion.

The original photograph was taken with the express purpose of utilising strong colours.

On this version the blue was lightened and the yellow darkened.

For the final shot the yellow was lightened and the blue darkened.

I think that the black and white version is more effective as it shows more detail of the primary subject.  The blue board in the photograph is  less important and simply acts as a contrast to the banana.