Little Box Of Secrets

Little Box Of Secrets

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.

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.

Gate, Showfield Lane, Malton



Hot Food Bar, Showfield Lane, Malton



Pet World, Showfield Lane, Malton

Mystery Shed, Showfield Lane, Malton

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.