Mono – Page 19 – Dave Wares

Mono Monday-‘You’re not welcome’

Jun 20, 2011Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Title-‘You’re not welcome’

This is a slight reworking of an older photo from a couple of years ago, taken at the dangerously derelict Lillesden school for girls. Originally it was a colour photo to which I added a mono layer to grunge it up a bit, the end result looking very muted and dirty. For this version all I did was to take that photo and convert it to mono, which I did using one of the free presets from onOne’s PerfectPresets plugin for Lightroom.

I quite like breathing a new bit of life into older pictures as they tend to get pushed to the back and forgotten about on sites such as Flickr.

Thanks for looking.

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Mono Monday- Seaside sweep

Jun 13, 2011Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Title-‘Seaside sweep’

I’ve gone with a rather minimalist shot for today’s Mono Monday. This was taken at Birling Gap on the same evening as the previous post but at the end of the shoot just before we hit the pub. The light we had hoped for withered away leaving us with not much more than a drab grey sky, however, I thought I’d try to create some abstract shots by panning the camera during a longish exposure. I took about half a dozen in total with this being the most successful.

I was going to keep it as a colour photograph until I saw a recent post from my good pal Brian Matiash. Brian has been experimenting with minimalism in mono lately, and this prompted me to see how this shot would turn out if I did something similar. I think I actually prefer this to the original colour one, so cheers Brian!

For those interested I hand held the camera, panning it during a half second exposure at f22, iso200.

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Mono Monday-On the Coast

Jun 6, 2011Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Title-‘On the coast’

Taken one sunny afternoon at Eastbourne. Not much to say about this one other than I like the tranquillity of it. It certainly was a pleasant walk along the seafront that day.

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Mono Monday-Simple decay

May 30, 2011Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Title ‘Simple Decay’

I tend to do a fair amount of post processing on my dereliction pictures, usually being either HDR or mixing colour and mono layers together. Sometimes though, a straight forward switch to black and white is all that’s needed.

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Mono Monday-The lonely chair

May 23, 2011Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Hi all, just a short post from me today.

This past week has been quite hectic, being both mine and my wife’s mother’s 60th birthday. A few things including blogging has had to take a bit of a back seat, hence my reason for choosing to post this shot of an old chair in a derelict corridor.

That’s it from me for now, I hope to get the next post up within the next few days. Until then, happy shooting.

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Mono Monday-Time to reflect

May 2, 2011Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Title-‘Time to reflect’

This is a shot that I’ve been sitting on for quite a while not really knowing what to do with. I originally took two shots, one with me as you see by the window, and another with me leaning against the wall in the corridor. The intention was to combine the two as a multiplicity picture, however, after a few attempts I found that it wasn’t quite working the way I had envisioned so I gave up and put the idea to one side. Approaching it a few months later with a fresh head I decided that using just one of the shots in black and white would suit the scene better. Perhaps having all this technology at our fingertips can sometimes cloud our judgement. Taking a more straight forward approach every now and then could possibly result at a better solution.