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Trying to be a bit more realistic with these two edits. Not quite SOOC (if you like SOOC, I'd suggest you're looking at the wrong person!), but I wanted to try to keep the elements that I like about these helios shots, rather than getting carried away and manipulating beyond recognition.
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I've always thought I can't do "black and white", mainly as i get distracted by colour and have to add it back in in some way or other. Then, I read somewhere (or maybe saw it on Master of Photography) that to produce images in B&W, you have to shoot in B&W. So, with my helios lens on, I thought why not give it a try and see what happens. So I did.
It really did focus the mind, and lots of images that I loved IRL didn't translate to B&W, because the colours all merged into each other. Which might explain why I haven't been able to get so many b&w translations to work for me in post-processing.
I ended up with a few images that I quite enjoyed - i think they tended to be with stronger shapes and contrasts, as you'd probably have predicted. Kind of silhouette-y.
Here: I wanted a fairly sympathetic edit, so limited it to slight sharpening of the main leaf, and some slight tonal manipulation to bring out the bokeh a little more. Very slight selective toning (purple in shadows, orange in highlights), but the manipulated image was blended back with the original to tone it back more, so any toning is less noticeable, I think.
I really enjoyed playing with this vintage lens and b&w; made for an interesting couple of hours.
C’è sopra, sotto, dentro, intorno a questo mondo un altro mondo insospettabile. Solo a volte lo ascoltiamo un po’ mormorare, frusciare e allora diciamo “è poco, è niente”. Ma questo niente è l’infinito. (J. Michelet)
My daughter and I went to Butterfly Gardens today, with weremakingit and her daughter Hannah. We had lots of fun taking pictures, of course!
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Taken a little before the last shot posted - not 100% happy with the over-exposure of the light through the glass but it's given me ideas! As the Church is only 100yds away I have time!
St Andrews Church, Stogursey
Another glimpse of life in the interiors of Himachal.Two women and a child walk uphill through a blossoming apple orchard in a village somewhere near Shimla.
A great tragedy yesterday.My thoughts and prayers for those who lost their lives and those who lost their loved ones.
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View over Fomm ir-Riħ Bay.
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