Fire In The Sky
Fire In The Sky - 5.10mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/125 second
I've been experimenting with PhotoTools Pro again. Can you tell? It's been a bit of a wet day today. Not just in Hampshire I believe, or so Twitter tells me. It's funny but, sometimes I know what the weather is like outside from reading my tweet stream with my one open eye, before I've even put my bedroom light on.
Anyway, the day did get better, and I ventured out after about 6pm looking for something to photograph. I took a bit of a walk around a local golf course which just happened to be completely deserted. A lot of mown lawn, pylons and rows of trees. Not particularly inspiring, for me at least.
Original RAW to JPEG - Leica M9 ICC Profile, 5.10mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/125
I drove further south to Kingsley and took a random side street I've often seen but never ventured down. I ended up at a small collection of industrial buildings and a few well worn barns. It also appears to be the starting point of a few public footpaths that lead across farm land. I shot till it got cold and dark and then headed home to refuel and process my results.
The image above is a JPEG of the RAW file captured and M9-ified in my usual process. The Leica M9 ICC profile definitely adds a bit more red to image. I put the image through a Kodachrome process in PhotoTools Pro and then cross processed it with E6 in C41 B. The result (top) is quite dramatic and somewhat cooler than the original image. I like everything about it except the fire in the sky.
I thought I'd include the black and white JPEG saved with this shot, purely for amusement sake. For better or worse, I usually select a black and white film mode on my Leica D-Lux 4 and then just shoot with it for the duration unless the light changes, then I'll make a few adjustments and go with that. This was shot using Dynamic BW film mode with the Contrast at -1 and the sharpness at +2.
