Team-BHP - The Official non-auto Image thread

@tsk - psychadelic !!! Awesome pic !!!

My contribution for today -
Clicked a series of pics just 20-30 mins back. This gang of Langurs - regular visitors to my garden, came down to lounge around.

Mommy... am i cute enough for the chicks ?????

Burrrp !!!! oops.. sorry !!

Puzzled !

comments : bring' em on !!

Great Compo KP, though the B&W Conversion leaves a lot to be desired.
I think you just did a simple desaturate or convert to greyscale. Thats not the best way to go B&W, you need to do a little more work for B&W to get best results
A good workflow is here
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This is easily translatable to gIMP, the free Image manipulation tool
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Anyways here is one of my shots in color

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Originally Posted by guyonblackybx (Post 741627)

Clicked this long time back occation was "Ganesh Visarjan" at Saroor Nagar Lake Hyderabad.

Camera: Canon 400D
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm DG Macro

@guyonblackybx, are sure this is a 70-300 mm lens shot, FOV looks like of a wide lens,
have used your kit lens 18-55 ?
Biju

TSK, im literally speechless, i dont even know what to say.
One of the best pictures i have ever seen!!
P.S. - Could you tell me how do i go about this selective colouring, ive seen so many pictures but dont know how to keep one portion of a picture colour and the rest in B&W.
Also, im on a mac, so if possible, please let me know of some mac compatible program to do this. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Xehaust (Post 742917)

P.S. - Could you tell me how do i go about this selective colouring, ive seen so many pictures but dont know how to keep one portion of a picture colour and the rest in B&W.

Pretty simple in Picasa. PS will give better effect though. I am not sure if Picasa works with Mac, check it on the site. Heres one I posted long back:

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Originally Posted by mail4ajo (Post 722609)

Test shot with a Tamron 70-300mm, Small editing in Picasa

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Originally Posted by Xehaust (Post 742917)

Thanks for your kind words.
You can use Apple aperture or GIMP on MAC.
Search google for tutorials.
In this particular case, there is no selective coloring.
I just "Desaturated Green/Yellow/Orange" colors.
Since that left red magenta and purple just the flower remained in color.
Another one of similar type

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Originally Posted by Mayavi (Post 741635)

This is the second pic you posted here taken around that lake, do you live in Saroor Nagar?

Not exactly in Saroornagar but at Kothapet.

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Originally Posted by BijuPaul (Post 742900)

@guyonblackybx, are sure this is a 70-300 mm lens shot, FOV looks like of a wide lens,
have used your kit lens 18-55 ?
Biju

Said it right Biju,
Its not 70-300mm. Clicked it with my Kit lens 18-55mm :P typed out that just out of habit was not realy thinking stupid:

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Originally Posted by Rudra Sen (Post 743426)

From old stock. Sending for print. Afternoon light. Black velvet behind. EOS 1Ds MarkII with 100 macro.

Superb shot!. Wow.
You should start taking classes for us :)

@Rudra....you should take classes. I'll join.
That shot was AMAZING. You have a knack to make the ordinary look extra-ordinary.

@tsk: That's a nice shot. I like the way the flower stands out.

-- Torqy