Taken at an old derelict manor house.
Just a quick post from me today as the family and I are getting ready for a short break away. Nowhere exotic but will be great fun for the kids.
See you on the other side. Thanks for stopping by.
Tag: Black and White
Mono Monday-Stargazing
Title-Stargazing
So here we are with another mono Monday image. This was taken a couple of years back whilst on a trip to London with my cousin and a couple of his friends. I like how I’m taking a picture of someone appreciating another photographers work. There’s a simplicity about having just the one person in the frame that appeals to me, had there been more it wouldn’t have worked so well, if at all. Black and white just seems to be the right choice for this picture.
I’ll have to make a return visit at some point and have another stab at some street photography as it’s an area I really need to get more confidence with.
Btw, I am now on Google+
Mono Monday-on a coffee break.
So Mono Monday has come around once again, but for this one I am here to tell you that there are a few things happening right now that are taking my attention away from this blog. Nothing bad mind. First thing is that my stepson and his girlfriend are moving into their first home and so I’m helping out with that. The second thing is my wife’s 40th birthday which is coming up in the next week, and we’ve been busy arranging her party. Oh and there’s one more thing, this time related to photography that hopefully will come my way shortly, I’ll let you know as and when.
Until then I will be taking a short break from posting anything but I intend on keeping this a short a time as possible.
Thanks for all the comments and tweets that you’ve given me. Be back soon.
Mono Monday-‘You’re not welcome’
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.
Mono Monday- Seaside sweep
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.
Mono Monday-On the Coast
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.
Dave Wares 