Black and white architecture

I am not very used to create monochrome images, but this archticture is more or less forcing me to try it :slight_smile:

P6200043.ORF (13.6 MB)
P6200043.ORF.xmp (14.3 KB)

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Good thing about black-n-white is you don’t have to worry about color… :laughing:

After grayscaling, I rotated it a bit to make the nearest corner vertical, then an aggressive tone curve that turned out to just be an exposure boost, that is, straight-line, to get some contrast going:

I think it’s a great monochrome subject, and a fun composition.

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I preferred colourful…

More focus on the only open window, “gradient-ed” the sky. Sharpened to the max.

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First pass. My edit is a little cliche, but serviceable as a rough draft. I feel like there is a lot you might be able to do with crops and dodging and burning.


P6200043.ORF.xmp (27.5 KB)

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My edit in DT 5.6. I used color calibration module for monochrome conversion.
P6200043.ORF.xmp (25.0 KB)

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Symmetrical difference. :slight_smile:

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OK; mirrored to create seamless texture and then did some manipulations for the Droste result. :slight_smile:

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That is more the look that I wanted to achieve… bright sky and many details in the blinds. I did not get that, despite also working with colour calibration. So I will have to invistage your .xmp :slight_smile:

darktable 5.6.1


P6200043.ORF.xmp (15.5 KB)