I’m multi-tasking today- another apple photo for Beyond Beyond AND I converted it to a black and white in response to today’s Texture Tuesday challenge. It somehow seemed WRONG to take the beautiful colors out of the apple photos, but, being pressed for time, that is what I decided to try- and I’m happy with the result.
Editing notes: In Lightroom, I used a bit of a matte curve (just slight) and added grain to soften the image. After converting it to black and white, I darkened the shadows a little and added some yellow to the highlights and purple to the shadows (low saturation). In Photoshop, I added a layer of Kim Klassen’s anna texture, 100% opacity to the background, 50-100% brushed off the apples.
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Beautifully done!! 🙂
Beautiful black and white, Melinda.
Very pretty and skillfully done.
The focus and dreaminess is just beautiful!! B/W on this worked perfectly.
Beautiful. Great composition the way the basket curves and the apples curve, with the one stark vertical line. Very nice.
Earl