![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, I’ve been enjoying my new images so much that I’ve been printing them like mad on Epson Exhibition Fiber using the Advanced Black & White mode of my Epson Stylus® Pro 3880 printer. I really liked this shot in color, but the new look created in “black and white” was memorizing. It’s natural, but I found myself even experimenting with my fashion images using my Super Selenium preset to create shots like this one below:Ī color favorite, looks great with my Super Selenium preset Of course, when people think of black and white photography or even duotones I think visions of Ansel Adams and landscapes come to mind. I like both so it becomes fun to have multiple versions of your favorite shots My 2nd version went for a cooler and brighter look ![]() Of course, with Silver Efex Pro 2 (a.k.a., SEP2) I can just leave well enough alone with just one version of my image so I end up trying a bunch of different presets like I did in this article and in the photo below: ![]() Of course, I should probably use the term Duotone rather than black and white because most of my images, like the one above, ended up introducing some other color for a nice warm tone to the image. It became super addicting to play around with Silver Efex to the point where sometimes I’d probably spend a little too much time having fun creating multiple black and white variants of my images. I found myself falling in love with the new presets and creating some of my own. When I got my hands on an early release of Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2, I went nuts with it. I created this duotone of one of my favorite landscape shots. Using the 034 Yellowed 2 Preset as a starting point, Now my portfolio on Zenfolio even has some black and white images in it – something I thought I’d never do. In fact, in some cases even saved some bad shots with it. Over time I fell in love with Silver Efex Pro and found myself trying it out on various photos and I started to like it more and more. In my first review of Silver Efex Pro 1, I mentioned that “black and white photography isn’t really my thing” but I went on to say it was a fun product. Photo Copyright © Ron Martinsen – All Rights Reserved Silver Efex Pro 2 offers many great new presets like 032 Film Noir 3 shown above ![]()
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