Photography Challenge - Black & White

[Hali]

Just about as B&W as I can get it.

Super! I love quarter moon shots, they have this bit of mystery about them.

 

[Scott.Legato]

Show with Canon R5

Rage Against The Machine - Festival Dete Quebec - July 16th 2022

 

[stevegixer]

My first try at a star trail a little while ago with my then R6 & samyang 14mm

 

[Andrewdjacobson]

 

[Copterdoc]

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Very nice composition!

 

[Andrewdjacobson]

Very nice composition!

Thank you!

 

[Hali]

Very nice! I like the reflection of the trees in the water in the foreground and the light.

 

[Bettcherphoto]

Shot this in November while on an assignment at the Beverly Hilton... EOS R3, RF 15-35mm processed in capture one pro. ©2022 Adam Bettcher www.bettcherphoto.com

 

[Hali]

Shot this in November while on an assignment at the Beverly Hilton... EOS R3, RF 15-35mm processed in capture one pro. ©2022 Adam Bettcher www.bettcherphoto.com

That's super!

 

[Dean Wilson]

Easy, yet difficult.
As the Model I knew what the Photographer was looking for, but as the Photographer I only had 10 seconds to change roles to the Model.

 

[davidl111]

Infrared image (full spectrum EOS R, shot with 850nm filter), shot at Saguaro East National Park in Tucson, AZ USA.

 

[Hali]

Love this!! I'm partial to IR, I've got the same camera full spectrum converted. What lens did you use?

 

[davidl111]

Love this!! I'm partial to IR, I've got the same camera full spectrum converted. What lens did you use?

Thanks for your comment! The lens was the RF 24-105 f/4. I have found that if I shoot at f/8 or wider, I don't tend to see the hotspots that some RF lenses, including the 24-105, are 'famous' for, at least according to KolariVision. This image was shot at f/8.

I just went to your website, and you have some stunning B&W images, especially the IR ones. I used to live in Pennsylvania where we, of course, also had green grass and deciduous trees, but unfortunately didn't discover IR until after we moved to Tucson. You just don't get the same effect here.

 

[YangMills]

Self-portrait!

 

[Kamoshika]

Cape Irago Lighthouse

 

[Hali]

Self-portrait!View attachment 14163

Fantastic image!

 

[Hali]

Cape Irago LighthouseView attachment 14199

Beautiful!

 

[Kamoshika]

Beautiful!

Thank you.

 

[Hali]

It's almost Tulip season here, not quite time to go out to buy tickets for the fields yet but still some in the stores to buy, despite Easter lilies taking over.

 

[Kamoshika]

It's almost Tulip season here, not quite time to go out to buy tickets for the fields yet but still some in the stores to buy, despite Easter lilies taking over.View attachment 14220

Stunning!

 

[Hali]

Stunning!

Thank you!!

 

[YangMills]

This is Hannah and the shot is "Daydreamer"

R5 RF24-105 F4 L IS USM@94mm f/9 1/200s ISO200​

 

[Dean Wilson]

A true dreamlike photo, but....

The white scratch line on her right wrist leaning into the background is a bit distracting. That's being said, it is much better than any portrait I gave ever taken.

 

[YangMills]

A true dreamlike photo, but....

The white scratch line on her right wrist leaning into the background is a bit distracting. That's being said, it is much better than any portrait I gave ever taken.

Well that just goes to show that you can stare at your shot for ages and still not see everything. Not only have I been looking at this through several Photoshop sessions, but I have printed it at A3+ and mounted it for competition, and I never saw the white mark (it did well in competition and the judge didn't notice the mark either). It originates in one of the texture layers that I used to get the surrounding texture and is trivially easy to remove. Doh! Thanks for the heads-up (and the the thumbs up).

 

[Dean Wilson]

It is always harder to find little things like that when you are viewing your own work. Still a great photo.

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Inspired by PKM_UK's forest shots posted elsewhere, and by some of the very nice b&w work in this thread, here's a couple of images from NZ's famous Milford Track, taken when we walked it a couple of years back. This is a rainforest area - annual rainfall approaches 10 *metres*, but it was sunny most of the time we spent on the track - excrpt for the day we crossed the McKinnon pass, which would have been 360º vistas at the top if it hadn't been 360º cloud.

In some respects, the myriad shades of green are what the place is all about - that, and the literally awesome landscape - but simplifying to b&w brings out other aspects - the shapes and the textures which otherwise might be missed. To me, they're reminiscent of Japanese lithographs, especially the second one.

These are not fixed visions. Every time I look at them after a few days or months, I can't resist tweaking. And sometimes I prefer the colour versions... ;-)

 

[GrunRad]

The Raven Rook
Taken in Vienna's Central Cemetery

 

[YangMills]

The Raven
Taken in Vienna's Central Cemetery

Nice image - I like the vertical lines of the headstones and the bird is in a good place in the frame. But are you sure it's raven? Could it be a rook?

 

[YangMills]

So I'm going to post three images taken during a live re-enactment of steam ploughing as it was done back in the late 19th century. The way this works is that there are two traction engines, one on either side of the field and each pulls the plough across the field in turn. The plough is actively steered by the people sitting on it. The traction engine drivers signal to each other by steam whistle, but also visually.

First the plough:

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Now the traction engine driver signalling to the other engine driver "pull!"

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Finally an overall view of engine and plough, with driver peering across the field for a signal from the other engine driver:

Canon R6 RF24-105 F4 L IS USM 24mm f/9 1/320sec ISO200

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[Dean Wilson]

Crow, Raven, Rook?

Who's who? It's in the beak.