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My color image
2008-04-15 15:19:00 There was not so much reaction as I expected when I published yesterday my color image. It is actually rather interesting to know a bit of history behind this image. Originally I made very similar image using analog Pentax MX photo camera and 50mm 1.2 (I believe) lens some... More About: Color , Image
My color image
2008-04-15 15:19:00 There was not so much reaction as I expected when I published yesterday my color image. It is actually rather interesting to know a bit of history behind this image. Originally I made very similar image using analog Pentax MX photo camera and 50mm 1.2 (I believe) lens some... More About: Color , Image
New photo: Autumn trees
2008-04-14 19:16:00 Trying color image, something a bit more abstract but still a bit real to give feeling of autumn overcast day in a forest.... More About: Photo , Trees , Autumn
New photo: Last year's leaves
2008-04-13 19:07:00 While wondering in forest I saw these dry leaves from last year. There where so alone in whole forest without a leaves.... More About: Photo , Leaves
Heavy week
2008-04-11 10:47:00 It started so nice, but than something happen and I felt not good anymore. It is almost over now. One has to learn whole life, right? Than we started next building phase in hour house kitchen, it was done in record two days. Still some small finishing touches needs... More About: Week , Heavy
Heavy week
2008-04-11 10:47:00 It started so nice, but than something happen and I felt not good anymore. It is almost over now. One has to learn whole life, right? Than we started next building phase in hour house kitchen, it was done in record two days. Still some small finishing touches needs... More About: Week , Heavy
New photo: Driving in a rain
2008-04-07 23:32:00 Today it was raining while I was on highway, well most of the time standing still in traffic jam, because of the rain, but you know that already, it was raining today, while I was....... More About: Photo , Driving , Rain
New photo: Old window
2008-04-06 22:43:00 Dust of all the passed days.... More About: Photo , Window
New photo: The Last Ciagerette
2008-04-06 14:47:00 I guess this was one last summer cigarret in this hut at the lake. Now is spring and hut looks like nobody was here except the black cat. BTW: This image is created from Nikon D300 captured color raw file.... More About: Photo
Digitaly captured images
2008-04-04 11:40:00 I went today to the same place I have captured this image. I used Nikon D300 and plan to make similar set of images as I made not that long ago with analog cameras. The point it was how comfortable I will be feeling while making those images and... More About: Images
New photo: Theobald
2008-04-03 23:42:00 When we met first time he was so shy, esspecialy when I pointed my camera on him, but than just few moments later he was kid again.... More About: Photo
Day of comments
2008-04-03 23:33:00 Sometimes is like today. Day when a lot of people leave comments. I like that very much, it really feels like when you visit me. I would like to have chat more with you, have a cup of tea. Look at some photographs and just enjoy each other company.... More About: Comments
Nikon D300 at home
2008-04-02 21:17:00 So today afternoon I borrowed Nikon D300 and will have two days with it to get my feelings sorted a bit about this possible digital camera for me. For now I can tell you my first impressions. It is incredibly similar to Nikon F100 I am using currently. Weight... More About: Home
New photo: Dutch sea
2008-04-01 20:16:00 Cold water, with bare feets in it. Looking into mud water, hoping for miracle...... More About: Photo , Dutch
Article updates
2008-03-31 23:17:00 I have add some new information into my article about developers and film combination I am using. I have some plans to updates also other articles. Currently there are following articles on my site: Films and Developers My favorite Film/Developer combinations for black and white photographs with description of... More About: Article , Updates
New photo: Fishing with kids
2008-03-30 21:24:00 Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan... More About: Photo , Kids , Fishing
New photo: Catching a ghost
2008-03-30 14:49:00 Dirk is focus to capture a ghost ;-) at Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan... More About: Photo , Ghost
Still snow
2008-03-25 07:55:00 So few free days is over and we experience here a lot of snow for this country. Today morning I actually need to clean car from about seven centimeter layer of snow with ice under it. Driving was nice in sunny morning with snow on fields. I like it... More About: Snow
Sudden snow
2008-03-21 09:46:00 Today morning weather was quite fine for driving. Under the clouds and almost dry road. Just a few cars, thanks to the fact that a lot of people took off today. I was at my office in 25 minutes what can takes 40-60 min in usual day. After while... More About: Snow
Again analog
2008-03-19 23:28:00 After those last few days you may think I have lost all interest in analog photography. It is absolutely not true. I have just spent my evening to develop six rolls of Fomapan Creative 200 which I exposed some time ago at 100 ASA. It has been while ago... More About: Analog
Notes for the future
2008-03-18 21:38:00 It almost feels like people are worried about my possible move to digital. Absolutely no reaction except email and chat with Dirk and Daniel. Very interesting. Well I do my investigation and will write my thoughts and findings here, if not for anybody than for me as a note... More About: Future , Notes , The Future
New photo: Farm house
2008-03-18 10:45:00 I have modified this image to my best color to black and white skills to this date. Feel much better now. For more talk about converting digital images from color to black and white read look at my experiment page.--- Original comment from 2004-09-22: This is a farm house... More About: Photo , House , Farm
Loosing colors
2008-03-18 00:16:00 As I promised I just posted my findings about converting color image to black and white in my experiment pages. I spend few days trying things out. Images showed in that page are result of quick conversion only to prove a technique. So do not expect top quality. It... More About: Colors
New photo: Original
2008-03-18 00:10:00 This is original image, Nikon D70 nef raw file. And you can see its basic color version after lightroom conversion.... More About: Photo , Original
New photo: Old conversion
2008-03-18 00:10:00 Original conversion to bw I made using pwp (Picture window Pro) back in 2004. From that time I remember that it was rather complex and difficult. I remember I was splinting color file to three color channels and mixing them back together. I never was fully satisfied with this... More About: Photo , Conversion
New photo: Daniel version
2008-03-18 00:09:00 Quick Daniel Staver version, I believe he works few minutes on it. I was curious how his result will be. He has master The Photo shop techniques to the higher level and I always admire his opinions and craft. Another reason was that I failed to convert this image without... More About: Version
New photo: My lightroom version
2008-03-18 00:09:00 This is result of mine color to black and white conversion in lightroom. You need to understand that this was my second day of lightroom usage so I had no experience and I made the adjustment based on video tutorial. But I have spend quite some time with image.... More About: Photo , Lightroom , Version
New photo: My pwp version
2008-03-18 00:09:00 Based on color to black and white work flow from lightroom I try to do the same HSL space adjustment in pwp (picture window pro) I think I went quite to the extreme here.Sky is nice dark and foreground has that high contrast spark. But artifacts in foreground where... More About: Photo , Version
New photo: Final pwp version
2008-03-18 00:09:00 This version is based on aproach from Daniel Staver. First conversion from color to black and white was done simple with color mixer. And second using masks the part of image were dodged and burned. The key here is creation on masks. More about that in last four images... More About: Photo , Final , Version
New photo: old detail
More articles from this author:2008-03-18 00:09:00 This is 1:1 crop of converted image in version from 2004. No artifacts but contrast is low and whole image is very flat. Just a side note: Image is not sharp as it has focus on building and not on corn filed. That is not important for the moment.... More About: Photo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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