Creative interpretations: Desert Sand

[DannyRaphael]

I thought this would be a good one for a BW conversion (can you tell I'm having fun with this kind of thing?)

Have fun regardless what manipulation style you would like to use.

[palms]

Great photo Danny, have broke out of the painting mode for this one (nice change) as i dont really know what i am doing i hope to learn from this challenge especially as i do so love black and white photo's
Here's my go
first desaturated
then run pwl action ( would love to know how to get this action to
look/use as it should be )
then used burn just on the front footprints.

then i have sneaked in one with a tint (also a favorite of mine )

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Full moon on sand at sunset.

Steve

[manta1900]

Nice photo!

[Janet Petty]

Great picture for experimenting with Danny. Thanks.

I went a different route inspired by a friend of mine who is into infrared photography. I wanted to see what I could do to simulate the effect in photoshop.

Janet

[Kraellin]

thought i'd change the perspective a little bit and erase all but one set of tracks.

craig

[lkroll]

So simple in GIMP. Just Dup for three layers, set the top layer to Value, the Center layer to saturation and fill the base layer with your color of choice. I did some cleaning/sharpening too; hope I didn't over do it.

[kiska]

Did some channel inversions and SA paint. PS layer blends.

[Cyber Cat]

curves, hue/satur., channel mixer, PWL

[Duv]

Very nice stuff everyone. Works great in b/w or color. Cyber Cat, to me, very tasty yummers! I duped, changed to difference, applied Blend If/Gray This 0/94 107/255 Under 0/191 118/255 and Blend If/Red This 204/255 Under no change.

Cheers
Dave

[Neve]

There's a nice Plugin from Optik Labs/Virtual Photographer and I used a setting "Satin Steel" on a duplicate layer/Blend Mode Lighten at 50%. Then applied Cybia Filter/Pseudo IR filter. These filters are freely available:-

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

http://www.cybia.co.uk/pseudoir.htm

Great results everyone

[pavel123]

Stairway to heaven... The next step.

Pavel