Waterfall, Nothing Can Harm Me At All.
Waterfall, Nothing Can Harm Me At All - 5.9mm at f/8, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/10 sec.
The weather has been pretty miserable this weekend. I was really looking forward to spending most of Saturday up in London engaging in some street photography. I haven't dedicated a full day to photographing London for a while, and it's starting to bug me a little. I love discovering new places now since taking up photography. In the past, I didn't. Venturing into some alien territory was not something I ever looked forward to, or chose to position myself in. Taking photographs seems to have made that anxiety slowly diminish to the point where I actually get excited thinking about what unknown scene may be waiting for my to discover and capture.
Determined to creating something new this weekend, I ventured out to what I thought was a public park. It turns out it's a massive garden of an old age home. There seems to be a lot of running water around the area where I live. This little stream is right at the bottom of the garden and has at least 4 little bridges built for crossing it. Some have clearly been there since the dawn of bridge building.*
I've decided to actually make the Silver Efex Pro preset file, that I created during post processing, available for download with this image. I'm not sure if it's going to work, as I'm not hosting this blog myself, so Posterous may not support random file types, unlike uploading image and video files. Hopefully there'll be a link at the bottom of this post to the .sep file that you can import to Silver Efex Pro and edit or apply as is.
Processing details are as follows: after the usual M9-ification, and a Contrast bump of 10% in Capture One 5 Pro, I pulled it into Silver Efex Pro and increased the Structure up to 42%. I applied the Ilford FP4 Plus 125 film type without any modifications to the preset values for Grain. I very seldom modify the Sensitivity or Tone Curve of an image. It's a split tone with a very strong vignette of Amount -48%, Size 96%, and a Circle shape.
This photograph was shot with my Leica D-Lux 4.
* calling this a guesstimate is being too kind.
