Rain today in Rockville, California

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are lovely, my dear Adsos Letter!

I prefer the color photos, but the B&W have a certain charm too.

[Adsos Letter]

2. Thanks, Peggy.

The colored ones feel to me the way it does around here when we're having a normal rainy season.

[Solly Mack]

3. I'd love it there.

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4. I boosted the colors to give the feel of it.

When we have normal rainfall this can be a beautiful area to live in, granted I've avoided the nuclear waste recycling and cement plant just out of frame to the right....

[Solly Mack]

5. Oh. That does change things a bit.

[mnhtnbb]

6. haha

I suspect it will look quite a bit different by August.

[Adsos Letter]

7. I suspect you are correct.

And I suspect we may be in for a brutal fire season, given the amounts of rain we've had and the burst of undergrowth it always brings. At least the trees will be hydrated.

[Mira]

8. That first one, in color

is an instant favorite. Can't stop studying it.

[Adsos Letter]

9. I turned the car around to take it.

It's a road I drive fairly often. Today I glanced up and happened to see this. Something about the day made it stand out (other than the processing). I turned around to find a spot to capture it. Never did find what I was looking for originally, which was something for this month's contest.

It reminded me of country we saw over in the northwestern part of your state a couple of years ago, around Grandfather Mountain.

[Mira]

10. Look at this artist's work

https://johnmackah.com/

Go to Portfolios, and then Showcase.
Your photos remind me of his oils, and since this artist is in Asheville, and Grandfather Mountain isn't far from there, I think you are spot on with the similarity

[alfredo]

16. The varied colors of the leaves is interesting.

[alfredo]

11. Nice!

Do you use colored filters during conversion?

I love cloudy days. I like what it does for colors.

[Adsos Letter]

12. Thanks! The color images used a ND filter

Also some selective saturation, adjustments to contrast, and highlighting on the rocks.

The b&w was a straight conversion in Silver Efex, with some tonal adjustment/structure recovery in the shadows.

[alfredo]

13. I either use a green or yellow filter with foliage. The green seems to bring out different shades.

I like the different colors of the greenery in the color images.

[Adsos Letter]

14. There is a foliage preset in Color Efex

"Blue-Green," "Yellow-Green," and "Green-Green" is how it goes, I think. There is also a Color Cast that can make a difference.

Silver Efex has colored filters as general adjustments rendering the b&w.

[alfredo]

15. Great. Tonality has the colors, and sliders to affect the strength and tone.

I guess both are like the channel mixer on steroids.

[2naSalit]

17. I like the comparisons...

It's amazing what you can see in an image in B&W that you can't in color.