Originally posted by lithos If you like your image, it's already perfect.
If people like it, it's a bonus.
(I never really bought into that literary theory crap that the reader writes the novel.)
Though if you're looking for feedback, I'm not gonna preach to some so-called absolute standard. No platinum-iridium rod for these territories. No orange-red laser light in a vacuum here. I'll state what I think.
I don't like the toning. Did you just desaturate the colour? Straight desaturation is one of the most boring, IMHO, and hit and miss ways of BW conversion.
Well, I don't necessarily like it. I actually took it to show how shutter speeds can affect the motion in a picture. I am trying to help out some friends and family who have recently bought slrs and don't know anything other than to use the auto pic mode, so I didn't spend much time on the shot, just knew it would show what I needed it to. So I would like to retake it and make it better. It probably won't be the same shot, just another shot of the fountain. With the B&W, I was trying out something new. I recently got LR and they have their grayscale option, so I selected that, then played with the contrast and some of the hue and saturation sliders. This also was a test to see how it might turn out. I guess I need to go back to my other methods for getting b&w photos.
Also, since the theme for this challenge is b&w it might be helpful for people to talk about how to convert to a b&w image. That way as people take their pictures maybe they can try some different methods and see which ones the like.
ETA: So maybe when you post your pictures, explain the process you took to get your conversion.