On May 18, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ):

On 5/18/2017 10:20 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2017-05-19 01:37:28 +0000, said:

On 5/18/2017 7:43 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2017 21:56:22 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2017-05-18 04:49:46 +0000, Bill said:

On Thu, 18 May 2017 00:37:33 -0400,
wrote:

On 5/18/2017 12:07 AM, Bill W wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2017 15:55:30 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

There is more to it than that. The colors look slightly off and the
lightin is peculiar. I have had a quick go at one of your shots
with
Photoshop although this required dabbling in unfamiliar
territory. See
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s6dbcdd34m...3-EES.jpg?dl=0

Now the sky is purple...

Hmm.
Talk about ambiguity.
Song, or LGBT?

Nah, I'm a boring person. It's neither, just an objective comment. I
wish I could do better...

Here is the RAF if you care to try.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pj7bmsr7vabc9dt/_DSF4603.raf

For some reason none of my (up todate) Adobe CC software can open that
file. :-(

I had no issue with that.
What I do have an issue with is the blocking in the shadow areas. The
BW conversion was done using NIK.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jm920a15es..._DSF4603.jpg?d
l=0

While the B&W conversion might have been done using NIK (I assume Silver
Efex Pro2), what else did you do to create that Mess?
Specialized Peter sharpening perhaps?

Sharpening was 4.2. Your version has no black and is far too flat. My
issue is that as soon as I went for a bit more black, I had blocking. I
suspect that the DR is too much without using some form of tone mapping
to avoid this. Anyway, I am really tired as I have been up since 4:00
AM. I was recently diagnosed with COPD and went through a battery of
testing.

Sorry to hear that.
Is that a general COPD, or something specific?

What sort of prognosis for arresting progression with therapy?

Were you ever, or are you a smoker?


I would have gone about a B&W conversion with a somewhat lighter hand,
even with NIK Silver Efex Pro2.
This rendition was done in LR CC + NIK Silver Efex Pro2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t03g89o9psq61te/DSF4603-E2.jpg

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Regards,
Savageduck