B&W Old School Photography

[Bob Ross]

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Ok second day, and from the look of this morning (very dull)I did'nt have a clue what I was going to shoot today, but I dropped lucky while I was working in Ponty, the races were on, so I just parked up and went for a wonder, in my dinner break of coarse
Never been to the races before, or even watched or anything so I was pretty chuffed to get the oportunity of some shots.

same again d200, 50mm lens, manual exposure, b&w in camera & no photoshoppin only resizing to post.

Hi Ash,
What metering mode were you using? The reason that I asked is that I had some "non-qualifiers" where I underexposed. It only took a one click correction in my levels tool, but that is PPing. I am using center weighted metering and sometimes get it confused. Like yours mine needed the white point adjusted. Here is what your shot looks like "one clicked".
Bob

[ash]

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Hey Bob, the exif says pattern but I only ever use spot and centre weighted, so I suppose centre weighted comes into the pattern category.
I am aware that these shots Im posting are not technically perfect but I felt this was going to be the case with my shots anyway

Like I feel that these race shots are slightly underexposed, But I no that by habit I always slightly underexpose because I no its better than the other way round, and In my mind Ive always got the safety net of Ps!

I suppose an exersize like this could potentially show somebody what they need to work on with their technique.
Its all good stuff Bob, post some more shots!
cheers
Ash.

[ash]

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I suppose under the circumstances Audrey we can let you sneek a sepia one in
Lovely scene, I bet you would have boosted the contrast on this one!

[Bob Ross]

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Hi Ash,
One thing that I discovered is that My E-3 decided to undo one of my dial programs without telling me it was the one that controled EV setting. I have been shooting without chimping, so the occational mis-exposure will happen much like the old days. I agree that Audrey's sepia qualifies and monochrome.
Here are a couple from yesterday and one "unqualified" that I liked.
Bob

[ash]

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Lovely set, looks like you had a nice sunny day for it, think first one is me favourite.
Keep em comin Bob!

[ash]

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Nothing as exciting as yesterday Im afraid, to be honest I did forget and have just taken these of my bike

Wopped the iso back up on these,1600, I dont think the grain is half as noticeable as it would have been in colour.

[ash]

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Another pedal power pic!

[Caz]

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Haven't logged in for a couple of days (I'd got a couple of days off at the end of last week and didn't get back here till Sunday late) so don't have one from this week as yet... after a couple of days away I kind of left the camera at home - on purpose.

So this is one I took on my travels - straight out of camera, although it is a conversion. The highlights were so blown I converted it to monotone when I was processing the RAW image - but it hasn't been touched by photoshop, hope it'll be allowed.

[ash]

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Good one caz, looks a familiar place, is it kirkstall abbey in leeds?
what cam/lens have you got?

[Caz]

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Thanks for that Ash - I've got a Canon 400d and had the standard 18-55 kit lens on at the time. I can't see that the exif data has come through, but it was 1/20 at f5, iso 800. It was about 5.30 p.m. when I took it and the sun was setting - unfortunately the gates shut at 6 and I was chucked out!

It's at Fountains Abbey, near Ripon - way off the my usual stamping ground

Still uploading and editing.... since I'd got there late on the Thursday night, went back and went round the water garden on Friday before joining the traffic jams at Wetherby

[Caz]

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Just had a thought - uploaded a black n white last week which I meant to put up for critique but forgot... This was taken in a gothic cemetery down the road from where I work. It was shot in black and white, as I wanted the monotone horse against the background of leaves.
Hope you think it works...

[ash]

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Yeah a nicely blown background there, although the horses head could have maybe been more to the left of the frame so it was not so central I think, just a thought!

[ash]

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Right then, whats this day 4 was in leeds today so I made my way to Kirkstall Abbey, inspired by caz's ruin shot I thought yeah, ruin's always look good in b&w

This one I used built in flash just to try and expose the stonework a bit more,
Im very pleased with the result, cant wait to have a play with it in ps though, but for this exersize you get to see it straight from the sensor

[ash]

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I just love the shadow this was casting and Im really chuffed I got the stonework inside exposed too.

[Caz]

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Who are you calling a ruin? Careful young lad...

Thanks for this assignment Ash, it's been interesting. I particularly like your first shot of the abbey - the way the eye is led into the photo, which is sharp and with good contrast.

The horse is somewhat central, but he was placed that way to hide the houses through the foliage behind. When I looked at the colour version on screen, I was distracted by the coloured roofs peeking through the foliage.

Here's my offerings for today - no ruins today, just Northampton's main street. The first is straight out of camera, the second has been cropped to remove a little of the second statue that had crept in one corner!