So today I took a walk in Lithia Park with the EOS M. While most of my snaps were of rushing water and rocks I ended up liking this decaying oak leaf the best. The dried brown of the color image didn’t do it for me though so I went with a black and white treatment and chose a heavy sepia tone to bring it back in the direction of the earthiness of the forest floor.
Not sure if this fence was built by a drunken cowboy or what but Iliked the shapes and patterns of the barbed wire and the texture of the old wooden post. I’m finding in flat light situations like today black and white is often the best solution.
Today I spent a lot of time working on updating my portfolio. I have it split up into topical categories of which Black and White is one. Because I don’t have a lot in that file I decided to go looking for images that might look better in black and white. This one definitely qualified. As to whether it will get into the portfolio? The jury is still out on that.
I’m starting to get into this post processing challenge but I hope that within a few days I will be done with the 2015 files and it looks like the weather may improve enough to get outside and shoot something new. Meanwhile, I like the zen quality of flowing streams and the simplicity of black and white. I think the diagonal line through the image helps too.
Finally a day that was warm enough and dry enough to be outside. As a brown leaf against a blue sky this was interesting but I don’t think I would hang it on my wall. I decided to go monochrome to celebrate the veins and texture in the leaf. I also edited out a lot of extraneous branches. I denoised and sharpened after taking it into Silver Efex Pro where the border was added. Now I think I might hang it on my wall.
Well, I think this lost a lot in the translation to jpeg but snow is certainly a good winter topic and works well in black and white. So there’s another thing I can work on during this project.