Night colour
There's one near you - to photograph at night.
Olympus E-P1, kit lens. This takes me back a looong way, to the late 1970s in Perth with Patric Shaw. I used to take a lot of trannies of neon signs, but back then I never used B&W as a night time medium for them. They were always printed in full colour on Cibachrome, a beautiful paper for blacks.
Processing info - This was a bit more complex than normal - firstly get the exposure and white balance right in ACR. A dark vignette drops the unattractive edges away. Converison to mono, with the look of a titanium-toned image, filtered with green to kill off some of the brightness of the overpowering neons.
I am growing very fond of the little Olympus Pen - it is easy to have it with me when I want to make images at odd moments, and other cameras are at home asleep in their bags. This was shot taking advantage of the in-body image stabilization, as it was hand-held against a wobbly pole for stability. The exposure was 1/5 sec @ f4. It is becoming a great tool.
Don't forget to visit my blog to get the story behind these images - The Obscure Camera
Night colour
There's one near you - to photograph at night.
Olympus E-P1, kit lens. This takes me back a looong way, to the late 1970s in Perth with Patric Shaw. I used to take a lot of trannies of neon signs, but back then I never used B&W as a night time medium for them. They were always printed in full colour on Cibachrome, a beautiful paper for blacks.
Processing info - This was a bit more complex than normal - firstly get the exposure and white balance right in ACR. A dark vignette drops the unattractive edges away. Converison to mono, with the look of a titanium-toned image, filtered with green to kill off some of the brightness of the overpowering neons.
I am growing very fond of the little Olympus Pen - it is easy to have it with me when I want to make images at odd moments, and other cameras are at home asleep in their bags. This was shot taking advantage of the in-body image stabilization, as it was hand-held against a wobbly pole for stability. The exposure was 1/5 sec @ f4. It is becoming a great tool.
Don't forget to visit my blog to get the story behind these images - The Obscure Camera