Do you see this as
Near completion?
Destruction?
This was a color photograph from northern Michigan. Inspired by the black and white photographs recently shown here, I converted it into lab color, clicked on lightness and then converted it to grey scale. Intrigued by Colin’s luscious blacks, I used the merge tool to increase the contrast a little to get a little more black. What else should I do or have done in my first attempt at processing black and white photos?beaver-activity_bw.jpg

Steve,

is this what you meant by cropping to the lower right? I also did some ‘unsharp mask’. Of course, this cropped picture does not do justice to the earlier accomplishments of the beavers.

beavercr.jpg

Thank you for all suggestions. Here is further cropping.

beave.jpg