Surfer

[BAW0343]

I was in San Diego last year and was able to get some surfer shots from on top of a pier. Well Ive had trouble sleeping tonight and experimented with some black and white options in photoshop. This was supposed to give it a high contrast blue filter look.



Just wondering what you guys think in comparison of the original pic below.



1024 is a little larger then I like to post usually but oh well.

I'm a fan of B&W photography for the reason it usually brings out the contrast better then a color photo does. However, I usually shoot in color then change it later since you can't add color if you want it at a later time. Though, I don't always know if the change improves the photo when I do change it.

What do you guys think about this application? It may work better in color but I kind of like the B&W.

Please feel free to comment

[beaky]

I really like the colors of the original, but the b&w version does bring out the textures.
It looks like you increased the contrast, maybe a bit too much... kinda kills a lot of what's going on with the spray breaking off the wave, IMHO.

[BigTruck]

The B&W has a spiffy look to it, but like Rotty said, it got killed a bit in the spray area.  Other than that I like it, I have some good surfing pics from Hawaii, for some reason I found it really fun taking shots of the surfers, they make for good action shots.

[Brando14100]

The water and spray looks amazing.

8-)

[tcco94]

Great edits.

[BAW0343]

Thanks for the comments,  I think I did overdo the contrast.

Will have to try something different.