This image is a glimpse of next weeks exercise. It is a double exposure rendered inside my camera.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Month: February 2015
Spring Flowers In Black And White 08
This is a desert lily which I also photographed at Anza – Borrego Desert State park in southern California. If you would like to see the colored version, please click on http://photoblog.eye2eyephotostudio.com/desert-lily/
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Spring Flowers In Black And White 07
I photographed these beautiful flowers right outside my hometown, Merced, CA. They are blooming close to an overpass right at the highway. I used Silver Efex pro II to convert this image into monochrome.
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Spring Flowers In Black And White 06
This is the blossom of a California Suncup. I photographed this wildflower at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. I create three exposures which I later combines into this final image.
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Spring Flowers In Black And White 05
Let us continue to photograph wildflowers for black and white this week.
I drove to Anza – Borrego Desert State Park in southern California last week-end. It was great to see all the wildflowers blooming in the dry desert sand. This is an image of a primrose.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Spring Flowers In Black And White 04
Creating stunning black and white images is not just setting the camera to black and white or to de-saturate the colors in post production. For me it means to look at each RGB channel which I stack in layers and carefully mask them to create the look I want. In addition a program like Silver Efex Pro II is very helpful. If you would like to dig deeper into black adn white conversion, please read Vincent Versace’s book “From Oz to Kansas.”
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Spring Flowers In Black And White 03
Not just the flowers are blooming, many trees are also in full bloom. I shot this image pretty much straight up giving me almost a white background with a white blossom. This can be tricky! Luckily the blossom had a good structure and the branches in the background also helped to reveal the blossom clearly.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Spring Flowers In Black And White 02
There is a very distinctive contrast between white blossoms and green leaves. In order to bring this contrast out even more I used the blue channel of the image and the blue filter in Silver Efex II to create this image.
Enjoy and keep on photographing!
Spring Flowers in Black and White 01
Spring is in full swing in California. So go out and photograph anything that blooms and convert it to black and white!
Of course, you will find weeds anywhere. They can be a great subject also.
Enjoy and have fun with this exercise.
Smoke 10
I had some time yesterday so I created a new image using a lens blades as my template.
Enjoy and keep on creating great images!