Sunday, January 9, 2011

You Can See a Lot...

just by looking.  
I have no idea what these pipes are for - they remind me of some sort of industrial menorah-like thing.  If there were twelve days to Hanukkah...  

They are a particularly ghastly yellow color, and the bricks are pretty sickly reddish hued, which is why black and white will never die.  

And here's my down and dirty black and white almost the zone system:
1.  Shoot 16 bit raw.
2.  Get as much tonal detail as possible in your editor of choice.
3.  Convert to B&W.
There are a whole bunch of ways to convert - I use NIK Silver FX, or a B$W adjustment layer.  I was surprised by the endless complexity some authors come up with to make a black and white image...



 
 

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