I like the curves and the lines of this building complex. I was working on processing to bring out lights and darks today with two different photos. I decided the other photo looked best in sepia, so this was my BW choice for today for the BW book club. My main complaint about this photo is the sky. The sky was cloudy and the clouds had a yellowish white color tone. Processing to improve this type of sky is beyond my current abilities.
Good job. This may or may not have helped but- if you were putting this in to Picmonkey or Ribbet to process, first give your picture a little more saturation in the basic edits (usually the slider for this is found in the "color" button). Sometimes I will also raise the temperature as well (same place). You can also make the colors and the different tones more visible playing with the contrast, lights, shadows, and exposure (these sliders are usually found under exposure). Then I convert it to black and white. On most programs when you select this effect a color chart will appear. You can place the cursor on any given spot on the color chart and it simulates the idea of putting a filter on your camera lens. If I'm understanding this week's reading, applying a "yellow" filter to this shot would have given you a better gray tone in the sky. Sometimes it works with a red filter too. After I've done that I will revisit the exposure, contrast etc. if I need to. I'd experiment with it again to see if that might make a difference. Believe me, I'm no processing expert and I don't have the fancier programs like Adobe or Photoshop, but I do find that the freebie sights like Ribbet and PicMonkey have some great tools to work with and are perfect for someone like me who knows what they want the picture to look like but doesn't have the expertise for the more complicated programs like PS.
@archaeofrog@pyrrhula@jle__ Thanks to all of you. I tried a stronger contrast and the sky looked way too white. I am glad that this version with less contrast looked OK.
@olivetreeann Thanks you for taking the time to give me some helpful advice. I used Picassa for the processing. I was so busy that I did not try any other program. Today was another busy day. I hope I have the time tomorrow to sit down and try out your advice.
@daisymiller My daughter-in-law uses Picasa but I've never used that one much. I'm pretty sure they would have those features, but they may not be called the exact same thing. Poke around when you have time and play with it.
Great capture of the building and the nice lines of it