Posts by David Hood
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White camellia, Dunedin Botanic Gardens
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more from the railway station
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Went for a walk around the Dunedin railway station, figuring it would be good for B/W
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Another from my archives. For those that know Dunedin, I drove up Signal Hill to get the foreground for this when I saw the clouds.
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This one actually isn't black and white at all but I figure it looks close enough. It did have some tweaking of the light levels (curves) as it was mostly a nice day. We had been getting dramatic clouds, and I went to match the landmark to the cloud.
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This wasn't quite pure black and white, just mostly. If using photoshop I would have done the desaturation on a layer then set the opacity of the desaturated layer to control the blending
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Going back in my archives a bit
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And a selfie
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A couple from around the University of Otago
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Pulling both ends of the Levels towards the middle works wonders also…
Pulling the ends in means that the photo will use the full range from light to dark. Moving the mid point (grey) can also be highly effective if you have something in the picture you want the attention on- most cameras try and take the best overall picture which is not necessarily the best setting for the thing in the middle of the picture that is your subject. Nudging the grey point is particularly useful where you have some bright sky or dark background the camera has tried to balance the subject with.
