The Cobbler’s Shop – Boots
My wife needed a pair of shoes reheeled and so we went to a cobbler’s shop in Perth which was recommended to us by a friend. While I waited for the shoes to be repaired, I thought that this would be a good opportunity to carry out an experiment in shooting both in black and white and in square format. I was inspired by this post by Wouter Brandsma, who shows what can be done with small cameras, notably Ricohs. My first camera was a folding bellows camera (I can’t remember the make) which used black and white 120 film; so, this was a real case of back to the future:
This was an available light shot with the GX200 at ISO 200. One of the GX’s weaknesses is its processing of jpeg images, but a straight development of the image from raw in Aperture 3 to recover blown highlights with a little noise reduction produced a colour image converted to black and white in Aperture. A bit of experimentation showed that a red filter produced the best balance of tonality.
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