A few images under the heading of Monochromic Creativity.
March 21, 2012 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity, The Sensual Eye | Tags: Architecture, Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Monochrome, photographs, photography, Reflections, Scotland | 6 Comments »
Some images from a recent trip to Tantallon Castle.
March 3, 2012 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland | Tags: Architecture, Bass Rock, Black & White, Castles, digital photographs, digital photography, East Lothian, Landscape, Landscapes, Monochrome, photographs, photography, Scotland, Tantallon Castle | 2 Comments »
A few more photos from the Shadows Project worked in a much more artistic way.
February 29, 2012 | Categories: Fotos That Don't Fit, Monochromic Creativity, The Sensual Eye | Tags: Abstract images, Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Landscape, Landscapes, Light, Monochrome, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Shadows | 2 Comments »
January 27, 2012 | Categories: Fotos That Don't Fit, Monochromic Creativity, The Sensual Eye | Tags: photographs, photography, digital photography, digital photographs, Edinburgh, Leith, Scotland, Abstract images, Monochrome, Black & White, Light, Shadows | Leave A Comment »
Any regular visitor will know that I really have a thing about light and reflections, well this also extends to shadows as well.
January 23, 2012 | Categories: Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity, The Sensual Eye, Fotos That Don't Fit, Colias Reflections | Tags: photographs, photography, digital photography, digital photographs, Edinburgh, Leith, Scotland, Reflections, Abstract images, Water of Leith, Monochrome, Black & White, Nature, Light, Shadows | 2 Comments »
I just love that blurred figure in the foreground.
December 15, 2011 | Categories: Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Chambers Street, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Light, Monochrome, photographs, photography, Scotland | 4 Comments »
October 11, 2011 | Categories: Fotos That Don't Fit, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Abstract images, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Light, photographs, photography, Scotland, Shadows | Leave A Comment »
This just speaks for itself…
October 10, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Light, Monochrome, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos | Leave A Comment »
October 7, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Monochromic Creativity, The Sensual Eye | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Light, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos | 2 Comments »
On Islay for the Jazz Festival and this is the view from our B&B
September 17, 2011 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Hebrides, Islands, Light, Monochrome, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos, The Hebrides, Travels | Leave A Comment »
High contrast B&W to focus on that gorgeous light…
Will be a certain reduction in quantity over the next few days – off to the Islay Jazz Festival…
September 15, 2011 | Categories: Photogenic Scotland, Monochromic Creativity, Big Sky Photos | Tags: photographs, photography, digital photography, digital photographs, Scotland, Sky photos, Black & White, Nature, Light, Little Loch Broom, Wester Ross | 4 Comments »
Went B&W to highlight that stunning light…
September 13, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Light, Monochrome, Nature, photographs, photography, Port Appin, Scotland | Leave A Comment »
My friend Adrian suggested a crop of this that I wholeheartedly agreed with. It has certainly made it a much punchier image than the original.
September 9, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos | 4 Comments »
I just could not resist this sky…
September 8, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Light, Monochrome, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos | Leave A Comment »
Regulkar viewers will have gathered by now that I have a thing about light. I was playing around with this image, preparing to post it, when it struck me that a high contrast B&W version might just highlight the drama of the view, even one shot on a sunny late summer afternoon. This was converted using a yellow filter, followed by a warming filter, with a lightish touch of a cooling filter immediately after. Then, after a touch of noise reduction, I really went to town with the high contrast sharpening to bring out the drama in those clouds.
September 4, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Firth of Forth, Light, Monochrome, Nature, Newhaven Harbour, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos, Western Harbour | Leave A Comment »
A really beautiful day today with some fantastic light…
September 3, 2011 | Categories: Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland, The Sensual Eye | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Monochrome, Nature, Newhaven, Newhaven Harbour, photographs, photography, Scotland | 2 Comments »
These are the cranes from which I chose one for a vertical panorama a couple of days back. I went down there again this morning and got some shots to rework the previous version.
September 2, 2011 | Categories: Edinburgh Day by Day, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, Crane, Cranes, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Leith Docks, Monochrome, photographs, photography, Scotland | 4 Comments »
This is very much an experimental image, to see if I could pull off a vertical panorama, so to speak. Well I think that side worked quite well, and given the state of dereliction of the three cranes found here I decided to go B&W with a cool filter followed by a strongish sepia filter to give it that sort of timeless feel that I got in the presence of these beauties. I will be definitely going down there again to make a better attempt at this idea. This image will most definitely benefit from being viewed as a larger image.
Update:-
A comment from dcphotoartist inspired me to immediately revisit this image implementing his suggestions for alternative versions of the original (above), both of which can be found below:-
Crop 1
Larger version.
Crop 2
Larger version.
August 30, 2011 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, Cranes, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Leith Docks, Monochrome, photographs, photography, Scotland | 8 Comments »
Two versions of the same image, I was undecided which to post, so posted both in the end. We were lucky enough to be in Fortrose on a glorious sunny morning with some great clouds. These B&W conversions are very different, the first being a straight conversion of five images at half stop intervals stacked, and the second with the same five images stacked but before the darkest was converted to B&W, and with the four top images reduced in opacity slightly to allow just a hint of colour through from the bottom image.
August 28, 2011 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Fortrose, Monochrome, Moray Firth, Nature, photographs, photography, Reflections, Scotland, Sky photos, The Black Isle, The Moray Firth | 2 Comments »
Following a comment from a regular viewer, Adrian, I have once again decided to revisit an image, this time of the Forth Rail bridge. He suggested a crop down from the top for more impact, but having done that the image seemed to me to be a little unbalanced, so I cropped up from the bottom as well to restore the balance. Also I think that cropping from the bottom leaves much less space around the ferry in the foreground making it look much less like an afterthought. In the end I think that this is a much more powerful image than the original. There is also an alternative version, showing both bridges, to be found here.
August 28, 2011 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland, The Sensual Eye | Tags: Black & White, Bridges, digital photographs, digital photography, Fife, Firth of Forth, Forth Rail Bridge, Kindom of Fife, Monochrome, photographs, photography | 2 Comments »
Shot somewhere between Granton and Newhaven.
August 26, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Monochromic Creativity | Tags: Black & White, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Fife, Granton, Kindom of Fife, Nature, Newhaven, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos, The Firth of Forth | Leave A Comment »
Still an engineering wonder of the world…
August 26, 2011 | Categories: Monochromic Creativity, Photogenic Scotland | Tags: Architecture, Bridges, digital photographs, digital photography, photographs, photography, Railways, Scotland, The Firth of Forth, The Forthrail bridge | 2 Comments »
This was just crying out for the B&W treatment…
August 16, 2011 | Categories: Big Sky Photos, Monochromic Creativity, The Sensual Eye | Tags: Abstract images, Black & White, Clouds, digital photographs, digital photography, Edinburgh, Leith, Light, Monochrome, Nature, photographs, photography, Scotland, Sky photos | Leave A Comment »
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