Richard Vanek PhotographyRichard Vanek PhotographyConceptual and emotional photography projects by Richard Vanek. Sensitivity captured in black and white photos. Articles
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: old detail
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
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: 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: 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: lightroom version crop
2008-03-18 00:08:00 1:1 Crop from my lightroom version. You see a little white artifacts on right side of each top corn branch. In 1:1 crop is visible so it will be on print.... More About: Photo , Lightroom , Version
New photo: pwp masking version crop
2008-03-18 00:08:00 And finally 1:1 crop from version where HSL was not used. Simple color mixer and than masking for selective contrast increase where used. No artifacts and now strange color tones between corn branches. All seems to be fine. Important is how to make mask correct. I normally used very... More About: Photo , Crop , Version
New photo: My pwp version crop
2008-03-18 00:08:00 In this 1:1 crop from my image converted in pwp artifacts are terribly pronounced. It is certainly thanks to increased darkening of the sky. The separation based on color in HSL mode can leave these kind of side effects. And this is the point I mentioned at the start... More About: Photo , Crop , Version
New photo: Blurred sky mask
2008-03-18 00:06:00 After I saw Daniel's masks I used my detail mask and blurred it heavily (could be done more) You can see the result I used this mask for darkening sky as well for increasing it contrasts.... More About: Photo , Mask
New photo: Original sky mask
2008-03-18 00:06:00 This is the kind of mask I am always using this one is created based on color separation in HSL mode. Allows me to separate sky, but left those artifacts as you saw in detailed crop in earlier images.... More About: Photo , Original , Mask
New photo: Original corn field mask
2008-03-18 00:05:00 Based on color separation in HSL mode I created this mask for corn field. The result was that in brings strange denisty shift in the middle of corn field.... More About: Photo , Original , Corn , Mask , Field
New photo: Blurred corr field mask
2008-03-18 00:04:00 After blurring all problems with density shift were gone as the whole is masks disappeared. I used this to lighten and increase contrast of the corn field. So using this two blurred masks I created my final pwp version of the image. It was done in 15min so it... More About: Photo , Mask , Field
color to black and white
2008-03-15 23:22:00 The biggest challenge which I see in my conversion to digital world is how to process color raw images into black and white. I am currently reading a lot of materials from the web and doing some my own test. I also played a lot with lightroom, but I... More About: Color , White , Black , Black and White
digital world, is it for me? II
2008-03-14 17:41:00 This is continuation of discussion between me and Dirk. I have got email from Dirk last night and after reading it I realize that Dirk has rather different aproach to photography than I do. I try to explain to myself and to Dirk how do I see things. I... More About: World , Digital
New photo: tree in water
2008-03-14 10:15:00 Calm, you sit and there is no wind in the air, there is no movement in the tree. There is no though in your mind...... More About: Photo , Water , Tree
digital world, is it for me?
2008-03-13 11:07:00 I have this in my mind for a little while. Move to digital, to buy a Nikon D300 and go that way. I was waiting all these years for some camera which will give me similar quality as I do now with film and my Nikon F100. What I... More About: World , Digital
New photo: broken
2008-03-11 23:34:00 It has been broken. I look so close, my view is distorted. Chains are dissolving, they are not important, just fly over, enter the lake side.... More About: Photo , Broken
Refresh
2008-03-11 08:56:00 As you may notice I have made some little changes on these pages. Nothing special I just thought they will enhance browsing experience a bit. The feed on top right of each page is now going to feed burner. One reason is that it is showed in browser much... More About: Refresh
New photo: Sharp Sun
2008-03-10 22:14:00 Not only the spider can make a web, also sharp sun in cold winter day can make a light web in our eyes. How much I love it, nobody knows, but me.... More About: Photo , Sharp
New photo: cafe rouge
2008-03-09 17:27:00 Nice girl serving coffee in small English town... More About: Photo , Cafe , Rouge
New photo: Destination Far
2008-03-06 20:20:00 Road is sharp, surroundings not important, Just focus on destination...... More About: Photo , Destination
JEAN-CLAUDE BELEGOU
2008-03-05 17:17:00 Again today I have post on front page work of other photographer. I received email today from Jean -Claude Belegou. I did exchange some conversation with him quite some months ago. Today again I remember his excellent work. I have to mentioned another series he did back in eighties. It...
wink image
2008-03-04 12:35:00 Even I placed link to this image to my front page I can't help myself, but I need to write about it here as well. Why? Well this is that kind of image I always have in my head. And I have yet to produce. I love almost everything... More About: Image
Discovery
2008-03-03 09:44:00 I have just discover that I have about 30 undeveloped rolls. I expect this week to be development week. I am also giving course this week so it will be hard. I expect to be tired every evening, but hopefully some time and energy will be left. And tell... More About: Discovery
New photo: waiting for the rain
2008-03-02 21:14:00 So they stay there. Now dry, in moment wet. They stay as they can't leave. Would we stay? As we can leave?... More About: Photo , Rain , Waiting
Smaller book
2008-03-02 17:34:00 As I promised Friday here are images from small soft bound version of my book "Remembering Childhood". In case you have interest to purchase the book, please leave a note. Based on interest I will or will not produce second print of the book. The soft bound book is:... More About: Book
Last images
2008-02-29 16:06:00 After I have published two chairs image on Thursday I was kind of proud. I like that image very much. I like the way it leads observer eye based on lighten and sharp part of the image from foreground to background, while darker and off focus part in left... More About: Images
New photo: Hut by the lake
2008-02-28 20:12:00 Empty, with dirty window, reflecting reflection from water. Inside cold table, dirty floor and dust everywhere. Will they come back in summer?... More About: Photo , Lake
New photo: two chairs
More articles from this author:2008-02-27 21:26:00 Lying just like that, one behind the other under the moon light. Waiting for warmer summer days when people take them from cold frozen grass and put them on the wooden terrace where they will all together enjoying sun set into the lake.... More About: Photo , Chairs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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