HIstogram info

[Paul]

I am working on a picture to enter in a contest in my local camera club, and possible ship it off to N4C for the regional if it does well at home, This is for a Challenge category of "openings" I imediatly thought about macros of some dead trees and stumps at one of my favorite stomping grounds the Buffalo River State Park and Nature Conservancy. What amazed me is the amount of histogram info I was able to collect of some really intense details and structure. I am posting a print screen of my photoshop session to show you the hitogram in the Levels tab, and I havent even made adjsutments yet. I was amazed. I will post the finished copies here later on tonight. One in color and one in black and white for some help chosing which to use.

[Paul]

Here are my two prints. Which do you all prefer?

[leech~~]

The color one shows that it is wood. The B/W one almost looks like a fossil of some kind. I like the color one. Good Luck

[finnbay]

I like the color rendition. A lot more detail and character.

[eyeguy 54]

color :>)

[Dbl]

Color.

[yakfisher]

Couleur.

[tracker x-2]

color for sure

[Paul]

Thanks Guys, for putting the damper on my black and white image. LOL that is the one I liked, guess I submit both, one this month for the black and white challenge and color next month. LOL

[CAMAN]

I like the movements in the color one. Zoom out on the black and white and it may be better, it's just cropped too close IMO.

[Paul]

CMAN it is not cropped, that if a full image taken with a 100mm Macro lense with a digital frame around it.

[CAMAN]

CMAN it is not cropped, that if a full image taken with a 100mm Macro lense with a digital frame around it.

Alright, that's fine, but all I'm saying is the color image has movements on the right and left side that brings your eyes into the picture. The black and white has no movement and you can't really tell what it is. If you're set on black and white try taking the color image and apply the same filters you did to the black and white and see how it turns out.

[Paul]

Well as an update, my black and white image, tanked at this months salon as a digital image, I will being doing something different to the black and white then printing it, and will submit the color image as is in Aprils Salon.