Ch 57: OK another dog
ginger_55
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I only have my lenses for another day, so I tried to capture something tonight. Only problem, among many, is that I know too many ways to do black and white now. Out of Kelby's book and thinking of looking up Andy's tutorial.
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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Hi Ginger,
I was looking at your photos last night and my thoughts were exactly what you came up with in your third version. I love it! Great tonal range and emphasis in the right places. Great b&w conversion.
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very nice!
is it
'saturday night'---then 'movie: it's a dog's life'
or is it
'saturday night movie'---then 'it's a dog's life'
if it's the latter, suggest moving 'movie' up to the first line and lose the colon-
regardless, well done!
george
I printed out Andy's Tutorial on Black and White.
(The photos didn't print, so I read it and tried to have it pretty well memorized in certain areas before I started.)
And by the way, I have no idea how to find the tutorials, idiot that I am. I used Rutt's tuturial to click on and found the others that way.
Then I sat here with Andy's instructions on my lap and pretty much followed them. I just woke up, so I might not remember some small thing I might have done. As you can see it was difficult to get what I wanted in the black and the white: the dog and the man. I wanted the dog to be the main subject.
I had turned off the other lights in the room except for that rather strong light on the side by Bill. I knew I wanted to get black and white and I knew I didn't want a lot of competing "things", so turning off lights made sense to me. I even burned that side a bit before I finished the photo so it wouldn't be too light. Just a bit into the photo and kind of one side of Bill's shirt with the burn thing set to about 30%. I used another method to separate out the popcorn and darken it a tad with the highlights/shadow thing.
I tried all the Kelby methods, but I did want to try Andy's. I would have tried Rutt's, I honestly don't understand it.........or I didn't at 2 AM.
One thing that really impressed me about Andy's was that simple thing of using levels (extra credit there) on the dog's eye. That brought it home for me.
Smile,
thanks all you who looked and commented,
more looking is fine, too. Comments, also.
I have to do a baptism this AM, but no matter what photos I take, I
might stick with this one. It is with that lens that has served me so well and is being packed up and sent tomorrow, and it is of a reoccurring subject here, but one that is really dear to my heart.
And that dog is nothing if not emotional there!
ginger (any other comments??)
not only do you have the option of color but with the rgb channels you have the availability of producing the best b/w possible-
george
That way I can change my mind, and I have never heard a good argument for starting in black and white. In fact, I don't think I have ever heard anyone advocate shooting in black and white.
Someone might specialize in that as a novelty or something, but I wouldn't know who........... The thing is, there are so many ways to get the blk and white now.
I usually work the color up first. That photo came up from RAW, auto settings, very nicely. I stopped working the color up first early on in the "game".
ginger (It is a nice color photo, I just wanted the simplicity and timeless feeling of black and white)
My other Corgi is Lame right now, has hip dysplasia and he pulled something. Dogs are our joys and our pain. More joy than pain. This one
is Merry Chapel, my two year old female. She is a sweetie, except when
she is being an Alpha wannabee.
Thanks for your comment, Lynn.
ginger:D
Hope your doggie feels better soon.
Ian
very nice ginger, and having a corgi, i can certainly relate. i like the third one also, everything seems to crisp and clear.
as for shooting in black and white, when i was in college (back when dirt was new) that's what we learned photography on, good old Tri-X. we did our own developing, i even had a darkroom in the basement. we really learned to depend more on the composition and setting of the photo than the color. i still have boxes of negs from that era, some of which i am going to scan and work with. i think i lost some of that touch when i started shooting in color.
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my stuff
Laurie, there is a whole page of tutorials.................amazing!
I will try to find them again, I think they may be on smugmug, but I will find out the address and let you know.
ginger
Oh, I used to shoot with tri-X, too, and I used to push it, that is probably one reason certain noise does not bother me.
I did not do much color as that involved slides back in the early seventies, late sixties.
Nice job capturing this shot. Great interplay between man and dog. And the longing expression goes well with the challenge. Good luck!
Erich