This exercise is a continuation of the previous, creating monochrome effects through the manipulation of color channels. The brief calls for the use of particular types of photos from which we may choose one. I settled on what seems the most enigmatic:
A landscape in which you emphasize the depth by strengthening the visual effect of haze.
I tried googling key words from this sentence but nothing particular to what we are doing here turned up. I take it to mean that in an image with a considerable amount of cloudy sky, we can use the color channels to create more dramatic clouds, thereby emphasizing depth.
A confluence of events led today to taking a photo of the Burj Khalifa on a cloudy day and - voila! - exercise completed.
On the right is the processed color image. A b&w copy of this is immediately after, followed by a copy in which the blue channel has been increased, and WB shifted slightly toward blue.
Not entirely satisfied with this example, I went back into my archives for a landscape taken last month in the hills of Ras Al Khaimah. Again, the color processed image is first, followed by the b&w conversion, and then an enhancement of the conversion using the blue channel and tint sliders, but this time reducing the blue, and thereby blacks and contrast while bringing out perhaps a little more detail. The change, though, is quite small.
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