Columbine – B/W
Monday, August 1st, 2011Here’s a quick post on an image I took this past Saturday up in the White RIver National Forest — basically the area to the north of Vail, Colorado. This flower is a Columbine, the State Flower of Colorado.
Chautauqua Park – Black and White – I
Sunday, February 13th, 2011Please tell me what you think about either of these three images from Chautauqua Park. These have been converted and tweaked in Lightroom from their original color captures. Also, two images are of the same basic composition, just that one is landscape oriented, while the other is portrait oriented. Enjoy…
Lili
Sunday, July 19th, 2009My cousin, Lili, came to town this past week with her mom to pick up her older sister Emma who had been staying with us for the past three weeks. Just before leaving for the airport on Saturday, I noticed what she was wearing and immediately said “Let’s go take a portrait.” So I took [...]
From Double Exposure Online Magazine: Exploring B&W Possibilities
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Here’s a quick little tutorial on ways to achieving a B&W conversion, entitled: Workin & Playin in the Digital Darkroom: Exploring B&W Possibilities. Check it out. It’s short, with lots of before and after images and it gives you a few options to try to achieve the black & white images you’re looking for.
Half Dome – Deep Black and White
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009And another image from this past holiday visit to Mariposa and Yosemite. This one is a close-up of Half Dome taken from the Tunnel View (aka., Inspiration Point) as a color image, then post-processed in Adobe’s Lightroom into a black & white using a preset I picked up called “BLACK”. What do you think of [...]
Half Dome B&W
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009This image came from my recent trip to California to spend the holidays with my family. This was a color image that was converted to B&W in Adobe’s Lightroom 2.2, using a preset that desaturates the red channel and adds contrast. From there, I added some of my own touches and framing to produce what [...]
Chautauqua Park 016
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Chautauqua Park 002
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008