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Ice flows East river
Cold morning
Sunday morning NYC
Just to add they a lot sharper than they look on here!
Plus any advise on improving these in Lightroom would be appreciated( they where actually edited in Photoshop express on my iPad )
Ice flows East river
Cold morning
Sunday morning NYC
Just to add they a lot sharper than they look on here!
Plus any advise on improving these in Lightroom would be appreciated( they where actually edited in Photoshop express on my iPad )
Edited by satans worm on Sunday 8th March 14:37
Edited by satans worm on Sunday 8th March 14:38
Looking at the original in Photoshop, it just needs a tiny bit of keystone correction to move the left hand verticals into line. Maybe it is just the 1980s car magazine thing in my brain, but I'd be tempted to subtly colourise it with a tiny bit of blue, to bring out the coldness. Is the vignette top left in the camera, or in post?
Love this thread.
Nothing to contribute yet but a batch of Ilford HP5 and some developing gubbins which arrived last week means I hope to be adding something worthwhile before too long (all being well).
GC, a small question for you: is your third image from the OP a digital photo?? I know from reading other threads you abandoned film some time ago and never looked back but that has a fantastically filmic light quality to it that I honestly have no idea how I'd achieve digitally.
I spent a lot of time as a child around Connel/Benderloch so have a very clear picture of how that sky would have appeared in colour and IME it's rare for b and w photos to suggest colour so strongly. Did you do something 'special' to achieve the look?
Nothing to contribute yet but a batch of Ilford HP5 and some developing gubbins which arrived last week means I hope to be adding something worthwhile before too long (all being well).
GC, a small question for you: is your third image from the OP a digital photo?? I know from reading other threads you abandoned film some time ago and never looked back but that has a fantastically filmic light quality to it that I honestly have no idea how I'd achieve digitally.
I spent a lot of time as a child around Connel/Benderloch so have a very clear picture of how that sky would have appeared in colour and IME it's rare for b and w photos to suggest colour so strongly. Did you do something 'special' to achieve the look?
Disastrous said:
Love this thread.
GC, a small question for you: is your third image from the OP a digital photo?? I know from reading other threads you abandoned film some time ago and never looked back but that has a fantastically filmic light quality to it that I honestly have no idea how I'd achieve digitally.
I spent a lot of time as a child around Connel/Benderloch so have a very clear picture of how that sky would have appeared in colour and IME it's rare for b and w photos to suggest colour so strongly. Did you do something 'special' to achieve the look?
Yep... digital. Nikon D800 or RX100 can't remember which. Using 'curves' I added a lot of shadow to the sky to bring the clouds out (which I do most of the time, colour or greyscale - same done to the trees above.GC, a small question for you: is your third image from the OP a digital photo?? I know from reading other threads you abandoned film some time ago and never looked back but that has a fantastically filmic light quality to it that I honestly have no idea how I'd achieve digitally.
I spent a lot of time as a child around Connel/Benderloch so have a very clear picture of how that sky would have appeared in colour and IME it's rare for b and w photos to suggest colour so strongly. Did you do something 'special' to achieve the look?
Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 11th March 10:40
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