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Mike Bons
10-03-2011, 08:14 PM
This is the last bird retrieved in our early goose season which went from Sept 8-17. Got out a couple times with my buddy and took 40 birds. Gotta love those uneducated early birds. Since then I purchased Topaz Labs B&W plug-in. I have done a fair bit of work with it since and really like it. Here it is applied to Liza bringin' home the chickens.

http://mikebons.zenfolio.com/img/v34/p915023230-5.jpg
artsnimages
10-04-2011, 01:19 PM
I have it too and really love it. You could of used "adaptive exposure" a little more to open those shadows on the Dog. Its a wonderful tool! "Very innovative"!!!!!!! Just as good as NIK's Silver FX at a fraction of the darn price too,

Awesome Capture Mike and A darn good B&W conversion! Just needs a little tweaking.


Jim
lakejessup
10-04-2011, 02:43 PM
cool pic. Reqally do like the black and white looks like a hapy dog for sure. living in florida all my life never went goose hunting but i did get a ross goose down here last year.
jckegley
10-04-2011, 05:45 PM
That's a very nice black and white. You do have a few blocked up areas in the image (blacks with no detail), They might could be opened up some, then again, sometimes a black and white looks better with a few black holes. Very nice.
Mike Bons
10-04-2011, 08:25 PM
I have it too and really love it. You could of used "adaptive exposure" a little more to open those shadows on the Dog. Its a wonderful tool! "Very innovative"!!!!!!! Just as good as NIK's Silver FX at a fraction of the darn price too,

Awesome Capture Mike and A darn good B&W conversion! Just needs a little tweaking.


Jim

Thanks everyone for your comments. I would agree with all the points that have been mentioned. When I went back to try a redo tonight, I couldn't get it to look exactly the same (minus the plugged 3/4's). This was the first image I processed with the software before I was familiar with all the settings, but looking forward to using it a lot more. For $30 its a great value. That adaptive exposure is really cool. I also really like the silver and paper tone and the way as well as the vignettes.