Black & Wildlife - Zebras at the Waterhole
Namibia, Etosha National Park
This photo belongs to the album Black & Wildlife. Please check the whole album here:
www.flickr.com/photos/cold_shutterhand/albums/72157657245...
Many of the photos I’ve made did not qualify as excellent color photos, but some of them deserve a second chance in Black & White. Over the years I have made many wildlife photos which never made it onto my Flickr page. Sometimes the sun wasn’t bright enough to bring the colours to shine, sometimes there was too much heat in the air or too much dust and sometimes the subject just matched so well the color of the the scenery that it was rather monochrome. There are more possibilities of adjustment in B&W than in color without overdoing it. Actually, once you are happy with the adjustments of a photo in B&W you should turn it to color again. You will be surprised how terrible it might look. But analog B&W photographers have been using these technics for a century. They were using color filters: green, orange, yellow and so on but also polarisation filters more often than today. They had also the chance to influence the results of the photography when developing the film and while printing it. The adjustments I have taken were all done in Lightroom.
Black & Wildlife - Zebras at the Waterhole
Namibia, Etosha National Park
This photo belongs to the album Black & Wildlife. Please check the whole album here:
www.flickr.com/photos/cold_shutterhand/albums/72157657245...
Many of the photos I’ve made did not qualify as excellent color photos, but some of them deserve a second chance in Black & White. Over the years I have made many wildlife photos which never made it onto my Flickr page. Sometimes the sun wasn’t bright enough to bring the colours to shine, sometimes there was too much heat in the air or too much dust and sometimes the subject just matched so well the color of the the scenery that it was rather monochrome. There are more possibilities of adjustment in B&W than in color without overdoing it. Actually, once you are happy with the adjustments of a photo in B&W you should turn it to color again. You will be surprised how terrible it might look. But analog B&W photographers have been using these technics for a century. They were using color filters: green, orange, yellow and so on but also polarisation filters more often than today. They had also the chance to influence the results of the photography when developing the film and while printing it. The adjustments I have taken were all done in Lightroom.