High contrast B&W

[EEKaWILL]

I was going for something to turn this old picture of me and my (ex) girlfriend into a B&W so no body could tell who was in the picture and almost make a silhouette out of it this is what i came up with was wonder what you think of it and if there is something i could do better? I was wondering if there was a way to have more detail but keep the heavy contrast? I post processed in camera raw only by turning into gray scale, +3.5 exposure, blacks +90, brightness contrast and clarity all +100



shot with my old SONY DSC-H7 2.8/f 8mm

[windrider86]

A couple things I noticed is the bright white spot over his head. Remove that.
I like these kind of photos, reminds me of a kid when we did the silhouette thing in school.
They do work best when there is more defined. Such as on this one their faces are blending together

[LeeR]

You can accomplish the same thing in Photoshop using the Threshhold feature and you'll have a lot more control over it that way. If you did that with the B&W image beneath along with layer masks and blending modes, you could have nearly infinite control over what appeared and what didn't. You are likley to find that some images lend themselves very well to this treatment, others not so much. It reminds me a great deal of the litho film we used to use back when I worked at the university print shop. The film was developed for use with type where you don't want any gray areas, but there were times when it could be used with a photograph to create something special.

[EEKaWILL]

Thanks a lot! ya that white spot was the logo from my hat forgot to remove it before i posted it eh....