29 Apr 14. Today we'll look at another piece of driftwood on Eglon Beach. This chunk of weathered wood is similar to another I shared earlier but this time I've rendered it in browns as a form of a monochromatic image which more typically would be B&W. The brown in this case I felt provided some warmth for the image and more closely resembled wood than would a pure B&W. Either way we have a monochromatic image, but this way we've added some personality. This image has had a number of adjustments to it to achieve the look you are seeing. The original color image was rich in the brown and orange hues; a simple conversion to vanilla B&W resulted in a significant loss of information that I wanted to keep, so the manipulations were performed to keep all that information including a couple to try and maintain a sense of depth on the right hand side of the log. Over simplifying what I did, employing the zone layer approach, several different zones were individually adjusted, then a B&W layer was blended with a creative layer to get the end result. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority;ISO 200; 1/400 sec @ f / 8.
30 Apr 14. With the wind giving me way too much competition on our day in LaConner shooting the tulips, I decided to shoot them as large scale shots as opposed to the individual flower and macro creatives. This shot of a grouping of three rows of different colored tulips was initially a single image, but the three different layers of individual colors just screamed out to me to divide them up as individual panes, so that's just what I did. I also decided to add a little bit of simplification to the image, and then blended the simplified layer with the normal layer to get a final presentation that was a little of both, but leaning on the original side of things. So here you have a version of a triptych presented a bit differently from what you might normally expect. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/400 sec @ f /13.
