Posts Tagged ‘B&W’
Contours
There are bits of rock sculpted like waves or the contours of hills along the shoreline of Eriskay. Some look as though you are looking down from a plane at a landscape below. This one was a rather simpler display of form and texture, but could almost be a long distance shot of some hills. […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, GF-1, Landscape, Macro, Texture
Into the Mist
The weather has been poor here over the last few days with mist and rain. Making the most out of it I thought I would experiment with taking pictures in these unpromising conditions. Here is one on the Glentarkie road just outside our village: This actually came out of the camera rather dark. I should […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, GF-1, Landscape
A Splash of Light
I saw this sunburst when I was at Balvaird. I only had a fixed (and relatively short) lens with me; so, I tried to place the impact of the sudden shafts of sunlight in the generally darker countryside. Shooting into the sun added its own challenge. This is another shot that has much more […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Drama, GF-1, Landscape, Sunset
Vanishing Point
This is a shot while I was waiting for the train this morning – taken from the end of platforms 5 and 6 at Perth station the rails snake away into the distance. And no, the bridge isn’t square, but it isn’t in real life either. I wanted to give this a fairly classic black […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Landscape, Railways
Prickly by Nature
Sometimes the potential of an image only becomes evident once you start messing around with it in post processing. This was the case here, when I discovered that a slightly problematic image of some thistles actually had some possibilities. I wanted to be able to emphasise the prickliness and spikiness of the plant and a […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Flowers, GF-1, Macro, Spiky
Before the drenching
I had intended to post something else today, but on a walk round the local area I saw this fantastic sky. What a pity that it was the forerunner to a rather violent summer squall, which left me with a small river running down my back! It’s pretty dramatic, but the black and white version […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Colour, E-1, Landscape, Raw Photo Processor
Hay Harvest
I took a bit of a detour on the way home today to scout out the water level on the River Earn. It is getting very low because there has been very little rain this spring. On the other hand it has been great weather for getting the hay in. These bales were arranged almost […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Colour, GX200, Landscape, Ricoh, Ricoh GX200
Old-time shop
Moseying around Perth recently I ran across this shop, whose display of goods provided an interesting mix of textures and objects. It has a timeless quality in black and white. Another E-1/12-60 mm shot developed in Aperture. White balance was adjusted, which warmed the picture up slightly and the black point was moved slightly right. […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Colour, E-1, Street
Ruthven Barracks
We took part in the Scottish bikeathon in aid of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research today. The route started in Kingussie and took us past Ruthven Barracks. These are the brooding ruins of a barracks where soldiers were based to patrol the Highlands after the Forty-Five to ensure that there were no further uprisings. They look […]
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Cycling Home
It was a beautiful summer evening on the Broomielaw next to the Clyde in Glasgow. Lots of people were sunbathing on the new pedestrianised area: a good evening to be cycling home: A GX200 image, this was converted from raw in RPP and imported as a jpeg to Aperture, where all subsequent adjustments were carried […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Colour, GX200, Raw Photo Processor, Ricoh, Ricoh GX200, Street
One Picture, One Day 