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Erratic Photographs by Michelle Stone
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
Fat Arm Lil, Two Black and White Treatments
Fat-Arm Lil, Black and White Conversion In Lightroom |
Fat-Arm Lil, Black and White Conversion In Silver Efex Pro 2 |
Fat-arm Lil is a replica statue, possibly of Pandora, that lives in our garden, sadly the reproduction process has given her a rather fat left arm, hence her uncomplimentary name. Lil is the standard test subject for new lenses, techniques or just for those days when I simply have to take a picture of something.
These were taken with the Panasonic GX1 and 20mm f/1.7 lens, shot in square crop mode, processed from RAW files. The top image was processed in Lightroom with a black & white preset and then a warm-tone preset. The lower one is processed in Silver Efex Pro with a split-tone and a fake film border applied.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Industrial Scenes In Malton
The other day I found myself on Showfield Lane Industrial Estate with ten minutes to kill and some sort of camera thingie in hand.
Originally I called this post 'Industrial Grot', but it's unfair, I love these places, sometimes starkly functional, sometimes neglected. Amongst all the modern aluminium industrial units Pet World is a random survivor from the past.
Black and white seems to be the best medium to show these in, normally I would shoot black and white on film, probably Tri-X with a 35mm lens, but today I was carrying a digital SLR. No problem, though, I just pretended I was carrying Tri-X and tried hard to 'see' in black and white. On return to base the images go into Lightroom for conversion into black and white using my home-made pre-sets and then the borders and captions are added in Photoshop.
Simple.
Gate, Showfield Lane, Malton |
Hot Food Bar, Showfield Lane, Malton |
Pet World, Showfield Lane, Malton |
Mystery Shed, Showfield Lane, Malton |
Black and white seems to be the best medium to show these in, normally I would shoot black and white on film, probably Tri-X with a 35mm lens, but today I was carrying a digital SLR. No problem, though, I just pretended I was carrying Tri-X and tried hard to 'see' in black and white. On return to base the images go into Lightroom for conversion into black and white using my home-made pre-sets and then the borders and captions are added in Photoshop.
Simple.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Monday, 5 December 2011
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