Tag : monochrome

Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen

 Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen. 2023. I invite you to look closely at this one, there’s a fair bit happening (despite the main subject being chizelled out of stone)

Moody skies, Svalbard

Svalbard, 2023. Moody skies can really make a photograph. Other than the black and white conversion, this image is almost straight out of camera. ~KD

Early morning at the pond

Early morning in Kahna Tiger Reserve in India,  not a breath of wind and the pond has a glass-like reflective sheen.    It’s worth pausing from our pursuit of tigers and other wildlife to take in the scene and consider the photographic possibilities. Considering composition. The early light picks out the foliage of the trees on the far shoreline and is evident in the refection of course.    There is a blackened dead tree, standing stick-like and reflected perfectly in […]

Another Hazy Sunset – The Monochrome effect

Following on from yesterday’s post,  some further panoramic shots of Bangkok taken during a hazy sunset.   Today I’ve decided to go with the sepia toned monochrome treatment. The first image is a 5 shot stitched panorama.  Made using the 102 megapixel Fujifilm GFX 100s the file size of the panoramic was a memory test for the computer with the composite file reaching over 5 gigabyte during processing.  I ended up with a file that would print at high resolution […]

Half moon over Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

The Palace of Fine Arts located in the Marina District of San Francisco was one of several structures constructed for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition which commemorated the opening of the Panama Canal and also served to demonstrate the recovery of the city following the great earthquake and fire of 1906.  The buildings constructed for the Expo weren’t intended to last long term and so were built from flimsy materials such as timber, plaster and burlap.   Most of the […]

Film Noir inspired?

September, 2022.  USA.

stairway to Chapter House, Wells Cathedral, England.

Stairway to Chapter House, Wells Cathedral

The wearing down of the stone steps by so many feet over so many years, the religious connotations of ascending towards the light….

colour or black and white, St Michael's Mount

Monochrome or Colour – St Michael’s Mount

The mount has been the subject of myth and legend for centuries. Some of these stories, recorded as far back as 495AD. I do like the blue sky but I think there is a heightened sense of drama with the monochrome. Only minor adjustments were made to contrast values.

Winchester Cathedral interior

Photographing Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral, one of the largest in Europe, with the greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral. I decided to go with the sepia toned monochrome treatment for this interior shot.

Mausoleum of General San Martín.

Cathedral in monochrome, Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral interior images lend themselves well to black and white.

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