The Light of the Silvery

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 9, 2012215 views8 comments

...Moon of Course.

I have very busy at home, so have not been out (other than some quick backyard macro shooting)in weeks, so I have been absent for a while. However, I recently had a request for some black and white prints, and this is one I chose to convert to offer some choices. It was fun to revisit previous work with a fresh approach in mind. I might try printing this on metallic paper.

I posted the color version of this last year. Color was a strong element in that picture, but I saw something there that looked like it would make a good black and white. Conversions still in progress, so I'm wondering what you think of some of these.

Canon 50D
Canon 100-400
20 sec. @ f/8; ISO 200 + 1/25 sec. @ f/8 for Moon
Tripod, release
Converted to B&W in CS5

P.S. Nuts, I see the thumbnail looks like a black hole, so if you are one of the rare people who clicks on this, please look at the larger version.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Jim Sabiston on August 9, 2012 at 10:46 PM

Lovely atmoshere, the reflection in the foreground just pulls me in. Something about the double horizontal line at the shoreline breaks the flow a bit to my eye, but that is a minor detail in an excellent conversion.

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on August 10, 2012 at 1:09 AM

So nice!

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on August 10, 2012 at 1:31 AM

Haha...pretty awesome. Great work :)

aF

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Comment posted by Peter Conway on August 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM

I think this works really well as a B&W. Beautiful scene. I think it might be even better if you could bring out a little more detail in the background trees. It is pretty black from waterline to skyline but that may just be my monitor...

Excellent work.

Peter

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on August 10, 2012 at 4:29 PM

Looks good to me, Wayne--nice mood! Im not sure bringing out more shadow detail would be a good thing, but it worth playing with.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on August 10, 2012 at 11:30 PM

Nice!. Just enough texture left in the moon to make it radiant.

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Comment posted by Marco Crupi on August 11, 2012 at 12:34 PM

Very appealing image. I like your choice of a B/W presentation, and the sharp reflection. It looks very dramatic. Great effort.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on August 12, 2012 at 8:51 PM

Beautiful and dramatic. A lovely, moody image.

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