Streetlight and Cobweb
old streetlight and cobweb
a vintage light on top of a bridge
Crossing a train-bridge on the outskirts of the city I came across this grimey lamp, covered in cobweb, hanging above the walkway.
The image you saw above is just the upper part of the full image. Knowing how some steem-frontends treat thumbnails, I really didn't want to have a center-cropped preview representing this post. What I actually wanted to show you is the the full frame as seen below:
I always find it difficult to process my images as black and white. I'm never really happy with the results, I struggle with dialling in the right level of contrast and curves and it's basically just trial and error for me.
I didn't have much of a choice with this motive, though. The blue sky contrasting with a variety of reddish and green hues found in the rust and faded paint on those steel beams was taking all the attention away from the grimy texture and the cobwebs I actually wanted to capture
What do you think, did I get it right?
Let me know in the comments!
This feels a bit odd...
No bunnies, kitties and no googly eyes..
:)
hahaha... well, it doesn't say @fraenk on the label either... so I think it's ok :P
Awesome stuff :)
Pro tip for black and white :-)
Colour balance, temperature affects the black and white values too.
If your using Raw photos and lightroom or DC raw there's a set of calibration sliders that can also help with black and white and general skin tone management.
Especially the Blue primary saturation.
yeah... the B/W above is processed from RAW and not just de-saturated but taken through a channel-mixing process. I'm quite comfortable with that to chose the color ranges for brightness that I need...
I think it's more an aesthetic struggle than a technical one, I find it incredibly hard to make up my mind as to where the final "range" of brightness and contrast should be. I either see it as blown out and burnt or just a grey mush... if that makes any sense.
since we're talking about pro-tips: I often process B/W by taking each colour channel individually and layering them with "multiply" and/or "screen" processing. With some feathered masking it gives you wonderful control over highlights, grain and contrast... (also works great with color images btw)
But still, I often find myself playing with it for ages, never feeling fully satisfied with it, eventually just giving up and letting the files rot away on my backup drives.
Nice tips something I do with my digital at times. Yeah tweak syndrome is a thing I'm affected by too, black and white is strange as images that work with colour don't always translate to black and white well even with tweaks.
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