Another black and white that I believe works well. After all, the subject is a medieval Castle, right? “Midhope Castle”, but more importantly to some, “Lollybroch” to the Outlander people out there. I’m actually glad we got that gorgeous cloudy sky as well, it adds to the mood. I can’t explain how much I dislike plain blue skies.
The ART of Black and White
I have recently been obsessed with black and white imagery. This isn’t as simple as just pressing a button and changing the image. It involves a process that allows for much artistic license, it is often referred to as fine art.
New Tools
One of the things I like about photography and post processing is that sometimes you learn a new trick or tool and it opens new doors for your creativity. I discovered Gradient Maps in photoshop and have found a couple of interesting places to use it. This is using an orange gradient map and I like it. I’m not great with colours but under the correct circumstances I will try out some things.
As always, comments always welcome.
Confederation Bridge in Black and White
I like a good black and white image. The trouble is that not all images work as well as others but I feel that this one works quite well. The use of black and white helps us to look at more, we see the forms, shapes and lines much easier for one thing.
Photo of the Week #243
We just returned from our second trip to Shetland. Awhile back I wrote about comparing an organized photo tour with a self-guided trip and you know what? My original feelings were only reinforced. We really like the idea of setting up a home base and working from there. This flight was our first ever time that our luggage got misplaced. I’m willing to bet it went to Bergen without us as there was a plane from the same airline loading for there when we arrived.
We had to purchase a few things to get us going but the horrendous weather was the real issue. It was so windy and cold we really didn’t have the clothing to do very much. Our luggage caught up to us by day 4 and we were set with our rain gear and some more layers to deal with the low teens temperatures we were experiencing. All things considered, I would rather be in some northern destination than sitting on a Caribbean beach any day.
One of my favourite images came from a hike we did in the rain. There is no bad weather, just poor choices in clothing they say.
