Took the little Lumix out on a bike ride today. Completely forgot that when you pick the scene mode (was using the HDR B&W setting) you don't get the corresponding RAW file. Drat. That's the other camera...
So I have this jpeg file. Ran it through one of the Nik color thingies anyway (tonal contrast) then through Nik Silver Efex Pro 2. Why? I just bought the software - have to use it! Next time I'll remember to set the camera to the RAW plus jpeg setting. Duh.
Oh - this is down a quiet road somewhere in San Pedro near but not at Points of Call. If you look carefully there's an abandoned pair of shoes.
[Apr. 4th, 2011 08:45:51 PM]
Sub-5 at the moment. Come, now. It's not THAT bad. Is it?
I need professional help. :-)
[Apr. 5th, 2011 09:17:00 AM]
Better title: Attendant
[Apr. 7th, 2011 01:27:45 AM]
I still like this. And it is still sub-5. No one has noticed the shoes. Or that it says "No Parking" right in front of a painted parking space. Or, apparently, that it is indeed in black and white! There's that!
By the way, the shoes are in that first parking space, one right at the end of that painted line below the "P" in parking. Hard to see at DPC size, though.
I REALLY need professional help. It is several months later and I STILL like this.
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I think you were robbed on this one, Deb.
I love how synthetic nearly everything feels. The giant containment buildings, the wall, parking lot (confusingly labeled with no parking), barbwire, gates... even the flowerbed feels fake, put there to meet an end. The tree is the only thing that feels alive, reaching off away from the scene.
I like how the white line cordons it off, as well.
Deb, this sort of met the same fate as mine. It's a very nice shot in a classic genre of black and white "observation", and it got lost in a sea of drama and flash. RIP.
I don't see any shoes.... for small detail, I find a bird above that exotic, tropical California tree that will never shed it's leaves.
I think a good observation and super good b&w - canned "Nik" though it may be - it has a special look. v9
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