And The Witch Is Coming To You
What a wonderful day it's been this Saturday. I almost get the impression god thinks it's a work day. I feel like I'm back living in Africa again with such a beautiful blue sky above us in Hampshire. Not a cloud in the sky. I was on my way back from a shopping mall, and just couldn't resist pulling over next to a wonderfully arid farmland to take some photographs of a very large tree left to grow right in the middle of one of the fields. I thought at the very least I'd get some usable black and white images.
These two prints are from the same RAW file, nothing different there. I'm busy trialling Capture One Pro 5, and with it comes extra ICC profiles that you don't get with the non pro version. These include camera systems such as Leaf & Phase One. Phase One I think is awesome. I used the P45+ Outdoor Daylight ICC Profile for this image above and selected the High Contrast Film curve too. Beyond that, I pulled it into Photo Tools Pro and performed a very light cross process, OK it was 69%, but that's light when seen with the eye. That was a good starting point for my black and white below.
Once I'd cross processed the image I pulled it into Silver Efex Pro and used, what is starting to become a firm favourite with me, Ilford PAN F Plus 50 film and added some toning to the image using the Coffee 7 preset. There's a bit of a vignette going on there too to add a bit of dramatic atmosphere to the image and I think it does something to balance out the tones too.
I have a lot more photographs from the half an hour I spent walking around and photographing things, so I'm sure this won't be the last time I post photographs of arid farmland and trees.
The Witch by The Cult - one of my favourite tunes.
