225. Black & White II - October 8-14, 2017
Byron-
My submission is a picture of Dave. He appeared in a WPOTM submission a couple years ago with a cross behind him. This time I captured his image in the morning Sun to bring out the lines in his face. He has a history that the rest of us would not want to have. The lines are well earned. He's doing fine now. He was born into Erleen's side of the family. Now he only craves 2 things: a little praise once in a while and a family that he can be a part of. He's also a Packers fan (the phrase "rot in Hell" comes to mind but I won't use it). He will be at my house Sunday to watch the Packers - Vikings game.
ISO 1000, 23mm, f4, 1/850 sec, the Acros simulation was invoked.
My submission is a picture of Dave. He appeared in a WPOTM submission a couple years ago with a cross behind him. This time I captured his image in the morning Sun to bring out the lines in his face. He has a history that the rest of us would not want to have. The lines are well earned. He's doing fine now. He was born into Erleen's side of the family. Now he only craves 2 things: a little praise once in a while and a family that he can be a part of. He's also a Packers fan (the phrase "rot in Hell" comes to mind but I won't use it). He will be at my house Sunday to watch the Packers - Vikings game.
ISO 1000, 23mm, f4, 1/850 sec, the Acros simulation was invoked.
Darin-
I'm going to have to go with what I shot this week. This "No Dumping Allowed" sign, in Big Dalton Canyon, is seemingly being swallowed up by the tree it is nailed to. The bark is literally oozing over the top of it and, someday, may eventually cover the entire thing... Then, let the dumping commence!
I'm going to have to go with what I shot this week. This "No Dumping Allowed" sign, in Big Dalton Canyon, is seemingly being swallowed up by the tree it is nailed to. The bark is literally oozing over the top of it and, someday, may eventually cover the entire thing... Then, let the dumping commence!
Kevin-
When Byron announced this Black & White theme there was little doubt he was expecting someone to use the latest Byro-product. And I couldn’t resist. Seen here for the first time is the Byro-Mirror. This amazing mirror takes any object, no matter how colorful, and creates a perfect Black & White reflection!
It was so easy to use. A colorful rose was placed on the Byro-Mirror. A black background was placed behind the Byro-Mirror. Two lights were used. One studio strobe in a small gridded softbox was the key light. Another with a gridded snoot was the fill light, Voilà a perfect black & white mirror image!
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens zoomed to 70mm, ISO 100, f/16 at 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Byro-Engineering is also rumored to be developing Byro-Mirror II, If you place a monochrome object on it or in front of it, the reflection will be in full color!
When Byron announced this Black & White theme there was little doubt he was expecting someone to use the latest Byro-product. And I couldn’t resist. Seen here for the first time is the Byro-Mirror. This amazing mirror takes any object, no matter how colorful, and creates a perfect Black & White reflection!
It was so easy to use. A colorful rose was placed on the Byro-Mirror. A black background was placed behind the Byro-Mirror. Two lights were used. One studio strobe in a small gridded softbox was the key light. Another with a gridded snoot was the fill light, Voilà a perfect black & white mirror image!
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens zoomed to 70mm, ISO 100, f/16 at 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Byro-Engineering is also rumored to be developing Byro-Mirror II, If you place a monochrome object on it or in front of it, the reflection will be in full color!
Paul-
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. [Attribution unknown but often credited to Russell or Yeats.]
Collectively—through the millions of pictures and frames all of you have captured over the course of your lives—this may have happened to you from time to time, but as far as I know it has never happen to me until this week…
So bear with me on this, okay?
For “Black & White”, I had two or three locations/shots in mind to try and capture in downtown Lincoln. My intuition was right on all three counts—I got some good, serviceable stuff. Like most of you, I also discovered some serendipitous opportunities along the way that also provided some interesting results. What I did not expect was that a throw-away shot, something I just fired off one shot of for the heck of it, would be my choice for this week’s submission.
And not even the complete picture. The throw-away shot, in total, was just that. Nothing terribly interesting…
…until I noticed another picture tucked away in it patiently (or maybe indifferently) waiting to see if I would discover it. I did and—irrespective of what critiques it might earn technically—I was giddy Wednesday evening coaxing it out, working with it, and excising the rest without a thought.
So, not only is “The camera ...an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera” (Dorothea Lange), it challenges us to look for the unexpected were we sometimes complacently expect none, the details within the details, and the occasional small jewel amid the dross.
I’ve included the original (full image/unedited) picture I was going consign to the archives with my submission.
Setting the tone: (5:12PM looking south) Nikon D5200; 55-200mm lens focused at 200mm; aperture priority; ISO 800; 1/400 sec. at f/13; matrix metered; WB set for auto. The camera was hand-held and the shot was made in a parking garage as I was walking back to my car. After cropping the picture and tweaking the tonal range in Lightroom, I imported it into Silver Efex Pro 2. There, rendered the result as if the picture has been taken with Kodak Plus-X 125 film. Then back to Lightroom for a final bit of cropping and the addition of a watermark.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. [Attribution unknown but often credited to Russell or Yeats.]
Collectively—through the millions of pictures and frames all of you have captured over the course of your lives—this may have happened to you from time to time, but as far as I know it has never happen to me until this week…
So bear with me on this, okay?
For “Black & White”, I had two or three locations/shots in mind to try and capture in downtown Lincoln. My intuition was right on all three counts—I got some good, serviceable stuff. Like most of you, I also discovered some serendipitous opportunities along the way that also provided some interesting results. What I did not expect was that a throw-away shot, something I just fired off one shot of for the heck of it, would be my choice for this week’s submission.
And not even the complete picture. The throw-away shot, in total, was just that. Nothing terribly interesting…
…until I noticed another picture tucked away in it patiently (or maybe indifferently) waiting to see if I would discover it. I did and—irrespective of what critiques it might earn technically—I was giddy Wednesday evening coaxing it out, working with it, and excising the rest without a thought.
So, not only is “The camera ...an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera” (Dorothea Lange), it challenges us to look for the unexpected were we sometimes complacently expect none, the details within the details, and the occasional small jewel amid the dross.
I’ve included the original (full image/unedited) picture I was going consign to the archives with my submission.
Setting the tone: (5:12PM looking south) Nikon D5200; 55-200mm lens focused at 200mm; aperture priority; ISO 800; 1/400 sec. at f/13; matrix metered; WB set for auto. The camera was hand-held and the shot was made in a parking garage as I was walking back to my car. After cropping the picture and tweaking the tonal range in Lightroom, I imported it into Silver Efex Pro 2. There, rendered the result as if the picture has been taken with Kodak Plus-X 125 film. Then back to Lightroom for a final bit of cropping and the addition of a watermark.
Jerry-
Buenos dias estimados miembros del WPOTM!
Okay, back to Ingles. I took many photos and finally settled on a cute one of my wife Cindy and our dog Jack. This was taken with the D750 with 105 Micro set to 1/80 @ F11, ISO 800.
Buenos dias estimados miembros del WPOTM!
Okay, back to Ingles. I took many photos and finally settled on a cute one of my wife Cindy and our dog Jack. This was taken with the D750 with 105 Micro set to 1/80 @ F11, ISO 800.
Don-
Wednesday I drove up around Roof Butte by Buffalo Pass on the Navajo Reservation. I took this picture, it is my favorite,
of a wild horse that was in a meadow. I was using a 24 -70 mm f/2.8 lens.
Focal was 70mm. Exposure was 1/125 sec; f/7.1; ISO 72; Aperture Priority and Pattern Metering.
Wednesday I drove up around Roof Butte by Buffalo Pass on the Navajo Reservation. I took this picture, it is my favorite,
of a wild horse that was in a meadow. I was using a 24 -70 mm f/2.8 lens.
Focal was 70mm. Exposure was 1/125 sec; f/7.1; ISO 72; Aperture Priority and Pattern Metering.