Abandoned Bridge
I took this photo while walking in the woods near my home in Delmar. It was made during the bleak days just after Thanksgiving. And while I am now in Florida, I thought I would put this up as an example of using Silver Effects Pro to convert an image to black and white.
The original, of course, was in color. It is pretty nice that way but I wanted to capture the cold and bleak nature of late fall when the air is dank and the leaves have fallen. The scene is of an old abandoned bridge.
The photo was “developed” from a RAW file in Lightroom 3 and then brought into NIK Silver Effects Pro for the B&W conversion. Then I brought that file into Topaz Adjust 4 to enhance overall details.
I also created another file from this one with output sharpening from NIK Sharpener for viewing at a distance of 2′ to 5′. It was then printed on RedRiver Aurora fine art paper on a Canon Pro 5000 printer.