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The Skyway

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The Skyway - 5.10mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/200 sec.
 
During this week I've been out photographing again after a bit of down time due to a head cold that caused more dizziness than I'd care to articulate. I've decided to take on the monochrome challenge laid down in the latest edition of BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY magazine, so you'll probably see more monochrome images from me over the next few weeks, possibly months. 
 
If, like me, you are curious or interested to learn more about monochrome photography, then you should check out alternativephotography.com. It's a site that is recommended in the May 2010 edition of the magazine. There is also an article on how to create digital cyanotypes, as well as an article on photographing architecture and a review on Canon's new EOS 7D and Epson's Stylus Pro 3880 printer.  

Filed under  //   Hampshire   Leica   cyanotype   monochrome   photography  
April 30 2010
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The Hampshire Tree Album

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Treeup - 5.10mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/320 sec.

I did say I'd post more photographs of that tree. I went back to it today, purely to photograph it a little more and look for something else to capture too. I was reading the latest edition of BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY magazine that has a feature on creating your own cyanotype images manually from a digital negative. Right now, life's too short for that malarky, so I've used Silver Efex Pro. The important thing is, I was inspired. I don't know why, but I like the effect it gives the dead wood in the image above. It reminds me of those really really old photographs from a time when we didn't use one's and oh's quite as much as we do today.
 
Both images were shot with my Leica D-Lux 4. In the magazine, there is also a really cool feature article on Prime versus Zoom lens and the reviewer compares some really excellent Zeiss lens to their Canon equivalent, with the Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 T* Distagon impressing the most. The sharpest lens he's ever seen, apparently. 

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Treescape - 5.10 at f/2, ISO 80, 1/320 sec.

Filed under  //   Hampshire   Leica   canine   cyanotype   monochrome   nature   photography  
April 23 2010
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