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Post by alexr on Sept 29, 2019 16:43:53 GMT
Sorry for posting this slightly early, but I will be away next week so thought I would get it out there.
The most recent B&W challenges have been about subjects, so this one is about a style of image. I have recently seen quite a few 'High Key' images, and so this month's challenge is to show this technique. High Key is an old film making term, but photographically has come to mean images that are unnaturally bright, which has removed all of the darkest shadows. There are much better definitions out there...
You can get this effect either through your camera settings or through post processing, I would be interested to see both over the course of the month.
Portraits are a particular favourite for this technique, but landscapes can be equally effective where the subject is a particularly graphic or interesting shape, as it tends to accentuate form and lines rather than textures.
It is a new technique for me so I'll be interested to see what I come up with, as well as you. Please share both what did and didn't work so we can all learn.
Have fun.
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Post by Peterj on Sept 29, 2019 19:32:00 GMT
Had to read more about Hi Key ... Not really a fan, but decided to give it a try. I found a portrait with a really plain background so it could be overexposed in post. I started from my original color edit, made some additional adjustments, cropped, added B&W filter and then a color adjustment to reduce the brightness in the blouse. On1 2020 beta used exclusively.
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Post by hmca on Sept 29, 2019 23:07:08 GMT
I actually like the high key look and have tried to achieve it with flower images.....will have to see if I can find a few. I was experimenting with this image a couple of days ago. I remember that I overexposed it a bit in PP and then converted to one of the high key presets in SE 2. I duplicated that copy and took it into Topaz Impression where I used one of their sketch effects which I used at a very low opacity over the high key image. Back in LR I played with the split tone sliders till I was happy with the tone. Actually not sure if this would be considered high key?  I took the portrait yesterday. Bumped up the exposure in LR and followed that with the high key fine art preset in SE 2 adjusting the sliders and using the orange filter. At the end I added a highlight vignette.  I look forward to trying to find or create additional images that will work well as high keys. Thanks for this challenge, Alex. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Sept 29, 2019 23:30:17 GMT
Leah, now aged 19 years. August 15, 2004. Taken with my first digital camera a Nikon Coolpix. This is how I processed it way back then. I added a cross hatch at that time as well.  |
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Post by hmca on Sept 30, 2019 0:02:22 GMT
OK...so I found a couple of flowers.....   |
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Post by fotofrank on Sept 30, 2019 4:28:06 GMT
High Key Portrait original image in color - conversion in Camera Raw  Settings  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Sept 30, 2019 4:30:03 GMT
Oldman Reservoir, Sept 25 2019 Think this counts. Overexposed in ACR and fiddles with contrast and clarity slider and slight desaturation. DOH! Edited to replace the color one with a B&W!! I dunno....the lights are light but perhaps the darks are too dark. Not sure where the line is.  |
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Post by kdcintx on Sept 30, 2019 15:29:55 GMT
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Post by alexr on Sept 30, 2019 16:11:32 GMT
Thanks for all the great images posted so far. One of mine from a few years ago, and I think the only image I've ever consciously edited in a High Key way, albeit you mustn't look at the right hand side of the image as it clearly fails the 'black and white' aspect but I hope you'll forgive me just this once, as it is integral, I think, to making the mono aspect work. 
River Thames shoreline 1 by AlexR!, on Flickr |
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Post by tonyw on Sept 30, 2019 20:31:35 GMT
Another where I had to add it bit of colour back to add some interest - this was taken in winter with snow on the trees (and on the cardinals beak) so didn't take too much to high key it (I started with a preset in Topaz B&W and modified it)  Tony |
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Post by billz on Sept 30, 2019 20:50:42 GMT
Here's my first try ... edited in Camera Raw. I'll likely try another using camera adjustments. Thanks for the theme Alex.  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 1, 2019 4:09:19 GMT
An old house near Vauxhall, Alberta. November 30, 2008.  |
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Post by ritage on Oct 1, 2019 20:10:05 GMT
Original B&W. Topaz Restyle, Levels, Screen Mode My Grandfather on his 80th Birthday.
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Post by tonyw on Oct 2, 2019 15:53:43 GMT
I thought I'd try the in-camera high key effect and it didn't quite do what I expected - and it still required a black and white conversion and some more tweaking (in ON1) - will have to try again with some different in camera settings (eg deliberate over exposure)  Tony |
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Post by fotofrank on Oct 3, 2019 6:03:27 GMT
Naomi - same camera raw settings as before  |
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