toned black and white
Going back over some of my Egypt photos for my Egypt-Jordan photo gallery, when I decided to reprocess the image you see in today’s post. The image was captured back in 2007 and this is it’s third processing. In truth this is a multi frame composite in order to remove modern day tourists from an [...]
Looking back over some of my Egypt and Jordan photos from 2007, I found that I was less than satisfied with the processing on some of the images. Maybe I’ve learnt a thing or two since then! In any event, I decided to go back into the files and reprocess them utilizing some of the [...]
Digging back into my archives, a photo taken back in 2000, on film of course and since scanned into the computer…. I processed this image both in Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro. I decided to go with the SFX version which includes a fairly strong Sepia toning and a heavier than [...]
Continuing to explore the possibilities with Nik Software’s Photoshop plugins as I revisit the film scans from my trips to China back in 1999 and 2001. My current workflow with the images is as follows; Adobe Lightroom, - cropping if required - adjust exposure if required - set black and white points to avoid [...]
I’m currently rebuilding my gallery of China photos having visited there in both 1999 and 2001. Today I’m displaying an image from the first trip, a late afternoon shot looking across Hong Kong Harbour. The weather was humid and it was common during my visit for the skies to become increasingly hazy as the days [...]
Revisiting and reworking one of my Tanzania photos today. This shot is probably best thought of as an animal portrait and when I initially processed it, I decided that I’d move away from a colour image and experiment with toned monochrome effects. I recently reviewed my earlier blog entry and the commentary I gave back [...]
Continuing on from my previous blog post where we looked at fashionable, headless, models, today we review an image of one of Chatuchak Market’s stallholders. This lady was busy setting up the display case of her gift-ware stall and was quite particular, and very careful, in arranging the fragile wares. Being in an undercover area of the [...]
I recently posted this image over at Google+ where it was well received and so I thought I might repost it here on the blog. The image was taken in June, 2009, some 4 months after the most devastating bush-fires in memory occurred in my home state of Victoria. I recently revisited the image, tucked away as it [...]
Same image, two versions. A red footed booby sits on a nest of twigs, Eastern Island, Midway Atoll. In the colour version, I enhanced the blues and yellows very slightly, and warmed the image slightly as well. As for the monochrome version, I gave it a slight toning in Lightrooms’ split toning module. Hue [...]
“Erosion and dead trees”, not exactly the most inviting title I could have come up with, but at least it’s accurate. From my continuing series of photos from Waimea Canyon, Kaua’i, I couldn’t decide whether I preferred this image in colour or monochrome, so I’ll present both and let you the reader decide. The canyon of course [...]
Pipiwai Trail winds its way through Haleakala National Park to Waimoku Falls (see previous blog entry) a fairly easy hike of about 2 hours through differing vegetation zones. Starting near sea level at Ohe’o Gulch and making its way through forests of mango and banyan trees, then through a forest of bamboo before getting to [...]
Waimoku Falls in Maui’s Haleakala National Park. A slow shutter speed gave me the silky motion blur effect I was looking for.
Two quite different images today taken only a few metres apart. The first, “The water’s edge, Waipi’o Stream, Hawaii”, shows the rocks, some of them washed smooth by water, with their different hues. The photograph was taken with a slow shutter speed to smooth out the surface of the water which was rippling [...]
Continuing my experiments with image processing through Adobe Lightroom, today I offer three variations on the photograph “Bamboo Forest” (yes, I know there’s more than just bamboo in this forest but hell, I had to call it something!). The first version is a fairly “straight” colour processing, the second version is warmer with the use [...]
Once again we’re at the beach, it’s late in the day and the shutter speeds are getting longer as I try to get some of that dreamy, blurry, moving water effect. Just a couple of minutes walk along the beach from where last week’s Kukio Beach shots were taken, I closed the lens down to [...]
My travels through Hawaii earlier this year included some time on the Big Island of Hawaii, or Kona Island. Like all the Hawaiian Islands it owes it’s existence to eons of volcanic activity which is still evident today. The Volcanoes National Park, with Kilauea Volcano at its heart, includes a kilometre long walking trail named [...]
Today’s image taken from the deck of a boat, late afternoon on the Brahmaputra River near Guwahati in Assam, India. I wasn’t sure quite how I wanted to present this image and to be honest it wasn’t a picture that immediately jumped out at me whilst reviewing my files. I decided to try the split toned [...]
A photograph from the historic Qutb Minar complex in Delhi, India. I’ve entitled this one “A Study in Stone” and given the historic nature of the subject, I decided to go with the monochrome treatment. A couple of things to note, the small aperture ensures a great depth of field, and the shutter speed was [...]
Taken in Haridwar, India. A man walks along the archway supported balcony of a building. I was drawn to the repeated geometry of the arches and waited for a human figure to enter the frame. In processing the image, I considered both colour and black and white versions and settled on the toned black and [...]
Taking a break from the India photos, today I thought I’d go back into my archives. The “ashes and snow” photographs shown here were taken back in August last year, 6 months after the bushfires of February, 2009, which devastated vast areas of the state of Victoria and obliterated several towns leaving 173 people dead and profoundly [...]
Going back through my archives, I’ve revisited an image that I compiled back in 2007. The image was of some of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt. I say compiled, because the image is a composite of three images of the same scene taken a few minutes apart and then digitally blended in Photoshop to [...]
Taking a brief break from my India shots (don’t worry there’s more to come…) today I’m digging back into my archives to present some New Zealand, South Island, landscapes. 4 images in total, well actually 2 images but each one is presented in 2 variations! The shots were taken way back in October, 1987. Ah, things [...]
During the course of the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, people from all over India were staying in temporary tented accommodation in and around the town. We were made to feel welcome within these areas and the people were generally very accommodating to our photographic endeavours (intrusions?) Fairly early one morning I found myself within one of these [...]