Approaching Interlock
Center composed, black and white image in square format… Well that’s the Macro Mondays theme this week then :)
When it works at all, my brain works like this: centre (English translation ;) ) means symmetry; square means circle (I kid you not); black and white means textures and shapes… So the problem is what’s circular, with texture and macro sized… and, I forgot to mention, inside my house (it’s cold outside :) ).
Golly gosh. I’m glad other people don’t think like that! Can you imagine how boring that would be?
Have you guessed what it is? This is the stalk end of a Kiwi fruit, all suitably hairy and organic. If you take a picture like this it looks a bit like a scene from an Alien film (movie ;) ) …
It's a couple of centimetres across I guess so OK for the group - yey!
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image and that it doesn’t give you strange nightmares :) Happy Macro Mondays!
[Mainly lit in daylight but some help from an LED torch behind a sheet of white paper (it was getting dark at the time). Tripod; remote release; manual focus in LiveView; VR off…
Developed in Lightroom adding colour (to give something for the B&W converter to play with) and aiming for a tonal range; a ton of Clarity for detail; denoise because it’s a long exposure and it’s an ancient camera.
Into Affinity Photo. Sharpened with a mixture of Tone Mapping, Unsharp Mask and High Pass/Linear Blend filter.
Into Nik Silver Efex for the conversion; quite a bit of playing around… Used a green filter and lots of microcontrast.
Back in Affinity added a Curves layer and tweaked the contrast here and there to get a pleasing tonal range.
Dark vignette; border with shadow fx and Bob’s your auntie’s husband :)]
Approaching Interlock
Center composed, black and white image in square format… Well that’s the Macro Mondays theme this week then :)
When it works at all, my brain works like this: centre (English translation ;) ) means symmetry; square means circle (I kid you not); black and white means textures and shapes… So the problem is what’s circular, with texture and macro sized… and, I forgot to mention, inside my house (it’s cold outside :) ).
Golly gosh. I’m glad other people don’t think like that! Can you imagine how boring that would be?
Have you guessed what it is? This is the stalk end of a Kiwi fruit, all suitably hairy and organic. If you take a picture like this it looks a bit like a scene from an Alien film (movie ;) ) …
It's a couple of centimetres across I guess so OK for the group - yey!
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image and that it doesn’t give you strange nightmares :) Happy Macro Mondays!
[Mainly lit in daylight but some help from an LED torch behind a sheet of white paper (it was getting dark at the time). Tripod; remote release; manual focus in LiveView; VR off…
Developed in Lightroom adding colour (to give something for the B&W converter to play with) and aiming for a tonal range; a ton of Clarity for detail; denoise because it’s a long exposure and it’s an ancient camera.
Into Affinity Photo. Sharpened with a mixture of Tone Mapping, Unsharp Mask and High Pass/Linear Blend filter.
Into Nik Silver Efex for the conversion; quite a bit of playing around… Used a green filter and lots of microcontrast.
Back in Affinity added a Curves layer and tweaked the contrast here and there to get a pleasing tonal range.
Dark vignette; border with shadow fx and Bob’s your auntie’s husband :)]