It took a while to get to the point of writing this post. The original version of this swan:
Now transformed into black and white:
The easy part was the edits to the photo. In Luminar I have used the eraser tool to get rid of some of the dark patches on the swan’s breast and clean up a few spots in the water. I have also cropped this image. When I applied a black and white filter, I went with a green filter. Lastly, I applied a vignette. All pretty basic edits. It was getting the photo back into Lightroom in its edited format that proved to be the problem. Instead of black and white, it showed as a sepia image. The most frustrating part? I still can’t figure out why, after two days of messing with it, I have a finished version that I like but still not a clue as to what was wrong with the earlier edit.
Have you ever had something go wrong with files where the root problem remains elusive? so annoying. I do like this image in black and white though, feel free to let me know what you think in the comments below.
Cheers!
Added to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge, In Flight.
Picfair version here.
Beautiful.
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Thanks 🙂
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A beautiful capture of the swan Amy. I do like the vibrancy of the original image, especially how the light filters through the wings 💜
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Thank you, and I would agree, that light through the wings is a strong point of the original image.
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and it turned out beautifully in the end
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Yes 🙂 I do have a happy ending 🙂
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This is an absolutely beautiful post 😀
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Thank you so much Cee!
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Beautiful.
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Thanks 🙂
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Beautiful edit. Very elegant. That problem does seem unexplained. The other day I was opening a file in Picasa and the file opened as something hideously small. Duplicating the file, it opened just fine. No idea what went on there.
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Thanks! and I’m thinking you can relate to my frustration of it being fixed but because I don’t understand the problem, I’m not sure how to avoid it in the future.
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Exactly. If you don’t know the problem, it can come up again and you have to take two steps back to fix it. Maybe in your case you hit a slider on a colour tone or accidentally had hit the colour fixer brush or something.
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Yes, I had considered that, but couldn’t find it in the “history” of the image. But it was definitely something, and I suspect, like you are suggesting, an errant moving of a slider or something like that.
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That is interesting, not being able to find the ‘history’. Sometimes the ‘Undo’ button helps me, but not all the time.
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Oh, I meant that when I went through history there was no sepia filter. I was pretty sure I was going to find one but nope!
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beautiful photo!! so serene
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Thank you, and I love spending time by this lake, to me, it is a bit of serenity in my busy life.
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What a beautiful capture, Amy! The b&w looks even better.
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Thank you very much Amy 🙂
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Lovely … perfect timing on capturing the spread wings. Both photographs are great.
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Yes, isn’t it nice when the timing of a shot just works out?
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Black and White suits the subject well – Nicely done Amy.
I haven’t experienced your sepia issue when playing between Lightroom and Affinity. No idea what caused that 😦
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Thanks. The good news is that I have not had this problem again, so at this point I am suspecting a one-off kind of problem or error on my part.
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