Those conversions are using GIMP and colour -> component -> decompose and showing each layer individually - and will make sense to anyone who has read the book as it ties in with the picture of the church with different processing. I do use this way of conversion to b&w some of the time - and it's the only way I converted this ladybird so that it could still be seen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12323897@N04/7717842880
very cool subject and decomposing the shot to RGB layers is definitely my preferred way to do b&w conversions. Just mix them for the perfect end result :) Blue version has great details!
@janim I mix and match - but it depends on time - and I'm always trying to catch up - should be building a website and planning teaching for the week, not playing on 365 and Flickr
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this as a collage! I do love the detail in the blue layer but I think green might be my favorite for seeing the composition. (and I really like the color version... blasphemy! LOL). I should be working too... but this is much more fun!
Thanks for the lesson....you are teaching even if you aren't planning teaching. I am not familiar with the technique you did and am on a very steep learning curve with photography. I am so appreciative of all those photos posted with descriptions of how they were taken/made.
Thanks for posting this Shanne - it's enormously helpful for those of us doing the B&W Bookclub challenge. For what it's worth - I like the red layer conversion for it's clean lines and clarity.
Very cool...I've got to get into the processing side more..your example here shows how much more we can do when we apply the same vigor to the processing as we do to the capturing of the image.
