Photo of the Week 2023-12-18

 

Something a little different for me, a black & white landscape image. What prompted this? Read on ...

 

' colourless beach '

One of my companions for the October Superior Photography retreat shoots almost exclusively in black & white. Leading up to the retreat, during discussions with Hersh, I commented that I would be interested to see his B&W interpretations of subjects I would undoubtedly be presenting in vibrant colour.

During my review and selection of image candidates for processing, I recalled the discussions with Hersh and selected one to process in black & white to see what I could create.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-04-25

 

' spanning time '

 

For this week's photo, I'm going back a few weeks when I visited Pakenham ON to photograph this historic bridge. While revisiting the images from the day, I found this image from the east side of the bridge and decided to apply a vintage treatment with Silver Efex from the NIK Collection.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-08-07

Following on last week's post about changing up the weekend routine and using a modified IR ca modified to awaken my creative vision ... over the past week, I've been experimenting with processing techniques.

Ever on the lookout for a processing technique that works to transform digital image files into a graphic, using a combination of LR, ON1 Photo Raw and Anthropics, Smart Photo Editor on and infrared capture, I came up with this result which I'm quite pleased with.

Penman's Dam  -  Photo-Graphic

I intend to keep experimenting, but having applied the results to a few other images from the day, I may have come up with something to keep in the processing arsenal. 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2012-05-07

... continuing with my exploration of warmtone monochrome images, I recalled a podcast from Lenswork, the excellent podcast by Brooks Jensen, fine art photographer, publisher and visual artist. In the podcast, Brooks explained that warmtoned images appear more three dimensional when compared to images with a neutral tone. He referenced a survey, that I have yet to find online, stating that two thirds of people see warmtone images as having a three dimensional quality not present in images using other toning hues such as neutral, selenium etc.

decimated

 

 

 

 

I'm not entirely certain that I would say I find warmtone images more three dimensional, but I do find the resulting images quite pleasing and quite like the result. Perhaps I am in the one third, or I have not seen enough comparative examples to this point. One thing I know, I will continue to experiment with warmtone on my photographic journey.

DJE