Black & White Photoshop CS3 Actions

I've put together three sets of CS3 b&w actions. You can download them here. If you do download and try them please let me know what you think... The first two are pretty basic. My favourite is the third. Both in the samples below and overall on other black & white pictures I've post processed, I've found the third one to be the most interesting black and white workflow I have. (The picture used below was selected somewhat randomly for the purpose of comparison of the different actions. Original can be found in my flickr photostream for reference.)

Action 1:
1. Desaturate to black & white
2. Convert to Lab color mode
3. Create a duplicate background layer
4. High pass filter on the duplicate layer
5. Set the duplicate layer's opacity to 30%
6. Set the duplicate layer to Hard Light
7. Apply a curve to the background layer.


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Action 2: (most simple, most disappointing)
1. Desaturate to black & white


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Action 3:
1. Add a Black & White adjustment layer.
2. Add a gradient map (black to white)
3. Add a curve
4. Duplicate the background layer
5. Set the duplicate layer to overlay mode with opacity of 30%
6. (not included - add a hint of gaussian blur to duplicate layer)


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Alas, other than the pictures above I have no b&w pictures for you today... I'm not feeling daring enough right now to post the better of the b&w shots I have.
So instead here's some random DOF fun I had over the weekend.