All my colour photographs somehow “end up” in B&W — lately in muddy, depressing B&W. This started as a digital colour image (Nikon D70s) and then took on a life (or death) of its own.
All posts in B&W Digital
Flower Fingers
A flower growing in our front garden — originally taken with the Nikon D70s, then processed in PS as a “split-toned” B&W image through the magic of the Select Colour Range tool.
Venetian Bay
Back of an upscale shopping plaza in Naples, FL. Digital infrared with the Nikon D70s (“point-and-pray” with the lens set at 18mm) converted to B&W in PS. I actually have a roll of 35mm colour negative film in the camera and hope to have it finished and processed soon. It’s been a long time…
Piering out
My father-in-law standing on the pier in Naples, Florida. Taken on the D70s with the Tokina 12-24mm lens at 12mm (equivalent to 18mm in 35mm format — he was only a few feet away from me!)
Backyard
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Damp autumn mornings are a great opportunity for some backyard garden photography with a macro lens. I used digital for this image, and converted it to B&W with a split tone.…
Exercise in simplicity
This started out as a colour, 16:9 image from my Panasonic LX2 point-and-shoot camera. Then I cropped it, converted it to B&W, tinted it, and sharpened it — in Picasa (Google’s free image-manipulation program). Picasa is actually more powerful than people give credit for.
Infrared tulips
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I took this infrared image Nikon D70s with a 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor manual-focus lens fitted with a Hoya R72 filter. I framed the composition before putting on the filter (which is…
Tiny flowers
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } These things spring up in our backyard every April. They’re about a centimetre across, but I managed to make them a little larger-than-life with a macro lens on my D70s.
Royal Ontario Museum
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The former entrance lobby (now just a vestibule) at the Royal Ontario Museum. Taken with the Lumix LX2 digital camera.
Caution
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Here’s a good illustration of what’s possible with the Panasonic LX2 point-and-shoot digital camera. Taken at night on the bus platform at Eglinton Station in mid-town Toronto, ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/15th.…