My family

[hutters]

Well my wife and son anyway. Converted to B&W (using Wabbitt's LAB method ), resized and border added.

Canon 350D | Tv: 1/20 sec | Av: F3.2 | ISO: 200 | Focal length: 18mm

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[stevegreen]

Lovely portrait shot and I like the close cropping too.

 

[Mikey2cv]

That's a gorgeous shot! You mut be really proud!

 

[Pirate!!]

Ahoy!

A very nice conversion and image which I would hope will go into your family album. Mother and son will love to see this one again in years to come. A corker m8.

 

[electrolyte]

A lovely shot Hutters that looks great in B&W. Would be interesting to see what it looked like before in colour...

 

[wabbitt]

That is an excellent photo. Well done there mate.

I really like the LAB method of B/W conversions, as it adds a slightly dreamy finish to the final outcome and doesn't need too much playing around (for example if you use the Channel Mixer method which needs a bit of tweaking).

Top shot!

 

[Zone]

Agree, an absolutely lovely family portrait, I should really do more

 

[bstonehouse]

This gives a great finish - can this method be used in Photoshop Elements 4 ?

 

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Great job. Nice nice picture.

G

 

[wabbitt]

This gives a great finish - can this method be used in Photoshop Elements 4 ?

I'm not really sure, as I've never used Elements.

If you want to try, the Photoshop method is as follows;

-Change the image Mode to LAB (as opposed to RGB).
-Go to the Channels, and you should see 'Luminance, A, and B' channels.
-Right click the A channel and delete it
-Do the same for the B channel
-Change the image to Greyscale
-And finally change back to RGB

You can now tweak the levels and curves (if you have those plug-ins) to get the black and white points spot on.

Give it a try to see if it works.

Anyway... I'm going off topic!!!! Sorry!

 

[hutters]

The 'Thanks' button seems to have disappeared, so Thanks to you all for the positive comments

 

[monkeyleader]

Top stuff mate !

 

[bowenjones]

Lovely portrait hutters