After Before Forum Wk 71; Black and White Memories

The After Before Forum is a place where photographers of all levels can show how they get the wow in their photography. It is easy and fun to take part, you can check out how here.

The new year is here and so has winter it appears. While Australia bathes in heat waves I am surrounded by snow and freezing temperatures, and thinking about the summer it spent in my motherland.

Cornwall, England is a magical place and Mevagissey is just one of the hidden gems. Although my childhood memories from here are not my favorite, the memories I have from visiting last year are as clear as the water.
This weeks before image is already partly edited as it is a panorama composite that I created in Lightroom.

I had already created a colour edit of this image, however I was really interested in seeing it in black and white. I started by using one of my generic black and white presets in Lightroom and then set about adjusting the blue channel to darken the blues. I then added two gradient adjustments; one for the sky adding blue via temp adjustments to darken the sky some more and one at the bottom this time adding yellow via temp adjustments to brighten the blue in the water. The picture still felt flat in a few areas so I added radial adjustments to create some dynamic points.

I quite like this image, I know that many will be put off by the power cable. I did consider removing it but it has connections in multiple areas and felt to remove one part would mean removing all of it.
Does the power cable annoy you? do you think it should be removed? let me know below.

Week 71 Entries For The After Before Friday Forum

Benjamin Rowe ApertureF64

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theonlyd800inthehameau

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Michelle Lunato

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This shot was a random picture shot from a tour bus while in Barbados. Not normal the quality of photo I like to share with people. However, it did give me something to work with in terms of editing and a reason to not throw away this simple snapshot. The goal was to make it something more than blah, something more than what it was, a photo taken from a moving bus, lol.

Lore Dombaj Snows Fissures and Fracture

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Amy World Is A Book

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