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#Donnerstagsmonochrom
You don't see images processed in monochrome on my Flickr stream all too often. But here I thought it looked best. The thingy you see here is a playground carousel, photographed at the Britzer Garten. I'd seized the short moment when the carousel was not in use ;) Since the carousel's benches were painted in vivid red, I'd toyed with the idea to go for a colour-key-style processing at first, but in the end I liked the pure b&w look better, because the benches didn't really make sense to me as that special element that should be highlighted with the use of colour.
Converted to monochrome in Silver Efex where I used the preset "Film Noir 2" as starting point. I've still tweaked it here or there, because that filter creates a very contrasty, kind of harsh "silhouette" look with really deep blacks and almost completely blown-out whites, and I thought it looked nicer with more textures left in the image.
Viele Bilder in kräftigem, kontrastreichem Schwarzweiß gibt es in meinem Flickr-Stream nicht, aber hier sah SW einfach am besten aus. Ich hatte noch überlegt, etwas Farbe im Bild zu belassen, weil die geschwungenen Holzbänke dieses interaktiven Spielgeräts in leuchtendem Rot lackiert waren, aber in reinem SW wirkte das Bild doch am besten. Entwickelt in Silver Efex, wo ich das Preset "Film Noir 2" als Ausgangspunkt genommen und dann noch ein wenig angepasst habe, weil mir der doch sehr spezielle, Silhouetten-artige Look dieses Filters (mit tiefen Schwarztönen und fast völlig ausgefressenem Weiß) ein wenig zu extrem war.
Bei dieser Parkmöblierung handelt es sich um ein sogenanntes Sitzkarussell (sitzt man bei einem Karussell nicht eigentlich immer auf irgendetwas? Auf Holzpferdchen, Polizeimotorrädern, einem an langen Ketten befestigten Stuhl?); wenn man, am besten mit vereinten Kräften, an dem glänzenden Tisch-Rad-Dings in der Mitte dreht, fängt auch das Karussel an, sich zu drehen. Kürzlich fotografiert im Britzer Garten in dem kurzen Moment, als das Gerät mal nicht von Kindern umlagert war ;)
Yellow ropes suspended from green metal bars at a newly installed playground, seen against a background of roof tiles decorated with lichen.
It was early morning when I went on, and when passing a small lake I saw these horses on a narrow peninsula. Forced to stop and take a few photos of these Icelandic horses.
A shot of the old school in unincorporated town of Mitchell,KS. around 2012.The school was closed around 1970,the abandoned church across the road a few years later. The town's post office closed in 1953....
Have a great fence friday!
This is a repost. Original was uploaded with about a hundred shots when I first joined Flickr, so although it had some views there were no faves or comments as only one person would be following me shortly. The person who introduced me to Flickr.
This one goes way way back to 2007, where I was using my first DSLR, a Canon Xti., It was so exciting, as every shot or attempt was pretty much new. There were no rules to follow, I simply shot what interested me, and without the cost of film I was free to experiment. A nearby playground had open water from thawing snow, yet the ground was still frozen so water would not sink into the sand.
This was one of my favorite shots back then. I just loved the shapes and lines. Still possibly one of my all time favorite shots. I wish I would have kept the RAW file or at the least a high res version, but back then with slow computers and small hard drives which were expensive I pretty much kept images that were 1800 × 1200 at the largest. Although it may not show I am quite sure that the lens was the 18-55mm kit lens. It had a very poor reputation, but I thought it worked wonders under proper conditions.