Black and White

Moravian Cemetery, Hope, Indiana and Flat Rock.

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Today, I’m feeling more myself and so we took a quick trip to Hope, Indiana to visit a cemetery Gale had read about.

It was fine and I took a few snaps. On the way home we stopped at a cemetery in Flat Rock. I think it’s Morristown, but Gale would know better. This was actually more conducive to photography and the sun was playing hide and seek behind a cloud.

I took a lot of photos at both places. I wasn’t blown away by any of them at the time, but since I’m still on this split-tone kick, I thought I’d try it on some of them. I’m slightly happier in monochrome.

For the technically minded. Canon 6D with a 17-40mm and 50mm. Postworked in Lightroom 5.6.

Split-Tone

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Celtic Cross DuotoneBlack and white photography.  Gotta love it.  With an absence of color the mind can concentrate on shapes, shades and contrast.

But you can do more than just remove color from a photo.   You can tint the monochrome to a slight color, brown to give an aged look, blue to give  a cold look.  Or split-tone.    This is a way of tinting highlights and lowlights to a subtle color.  Back in the olden days of film, it would be accomplished by using different chemical baths that reacted differently depending how exposed the print was. Digitally, it’s much easier and less smelly.  In this case I’ve tinted the highlights to blue and the lowlights to red.
See how the dark clouds around the edge have a slight red tinge and around the cross are more blue?  Neat huh?  It adds more dynamic to an otherwise monochrome image.

Here are two more:Dead Body House Du-Tone Statue

Exposure

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Another old gallery reloaded into WordPress.

Exposure is a great PhotoShop plugin that creates a black and white image that has a similar feel to a load of old film makes.  To get good B&W photos you need to do more than just desaturate the image.  You need to adjust colour and contrast before the conversion.   Exposure 2 does a lot of that for you.   A few of these were further altered with PhotoShop brushes to give them cracks and scratches.