Posted in Black and White, experimental, toned on Jan 29th, 2012
While working on processing files for printing, it appears that some of the images benefit from toning while others don’t. The first one, in my opinion, takes on the tones well and brings out the scene as I experienced it. The 2nd image looks best left monochrome…. What is it that make one work in [...]
Posted in Black and White, toned on Jan 17th, 2012
I had begun using NIK’s Silver Efex Pro a couple of years ago and then sort of abandoned the use. Why, I don’t know. I recently processed a few images into B&W, and thought they looked good until I ran them through a process in Silver Efex. What a difference! Old photo, new process. Looking [...]
Posted in Black and White on May 6th, 2011
Posted in Black and White on Apr 22nd, 2011
[Click the thumbnails for a larger view] Had tried out Silver Efex Pro [V1] back in October last year and though I found it to be a pretty nice B&W conversion plug-in to Photoshop. I could pretty much make my own B&W conversions [and had created several Photoshop actions to run the conversions automatically] so [...]
Posted in Black and White, Mannat, Portrait on Mar 20th, 2011
Not as in ‘trick photpography’ but tricked: as in ”hey I need to test this lens, can I take a couple of pictures?“. Answer was a hesitant ”ok….” so before she could change her mind – a quick couple of clicks and it was done. Soft focus portrait with the magical Nikkor50mm f/1.2 manual focus AIS lens is what I’d [...]
Posted in Black and White, Dhaka, rickshaw, street photography on Jan 7th, 2011
And shooting on the streets again….