LET’S TALK BLACK AND WHITE ! Bring a black and white print or two to our Wed. Education meeting. We’ll walk through them together as a group, critiquing, and hopefully learning some things about what works, what doesn’t, papers for printing and some resources too. See you there!
First Place
“Burning Through Hell” – Dave Bell
Two First Place
“Ballet Dancer” – Jim Ingraham
Jim says of his image: ‘Ballet Dancer’ was a studio shot. One flash in soft-box high and to the left, looking almost straight down on the subject. One flash with a spot grid lighting the backdrop. One flash with umbrella camera right for just a little fill on the shadow side. ISO 64, f5.6 with a 35 mm lens on a full-frame camera.
“Karate Coot” – Jim Ingraham
Jim says of his image: ‘Karate Coot’ was taken at Reinhart Volunteer Park (All Sports Park). Taken with a zoom lens on a full-frame camera set at 500mm and an aperture of f9. ISO was 1600 and the shutter speed was 1/3200th of a second handheld. Coots are beautiful in an ugly sort of way.
Three Second Places
“10 Ladies Leaping” – Dale George
“Just Hanging In There” – Rose Christner
“Oregon Duck” – Jim Ingraham
Two Third Places
“Don’t Startle Me Like That” – Rose Christner
“Two Irons” – Susan Sheets
Honorable Mention
“Sun Dawg at Mono Lake” – Rudy Dierks
Burning Through Hell
Dave Bell
This image was taken at a winery, I had originally taken it a few years back. After the wildfires the truck was burned. I am new to the new category of AR, Altered Reality. I processed this by adding the Reds, the background of Lava Flowing with the firework sideways presenting movement. I named the image “Burning Through Hell”. I started with the Caveman Camera Club a few years back, it is a great place to learn. I used my Canon R-5 Mirrorless, I shot at an ISO of 100, Focal length of 28mm, speed at 1/125 of a second, used my Canon R 24-105 lens.
Congratulations! Dave on your winning image. Look for Dave’s image soon in the Daily Courier.
Hi Everyone,
Jan. Ed. Night isn’t until the 19th so you will hopefully have plenty of time to maybe shoot some new images in black and white. Below is a link to a super short “TIPS” list of things to consider while shooting. I’m definitely going to try some filters as I haven’t done that before with black and white specifically in mind.
https://www.photodirect.com.au/5-black-and-white-photography-tips-to-master-monochrome/
If you missed Larry’s short tutorial on FB about how to convert to black and white in LR check it out – he walks you right through it 1,2,3 in the video. Thanks! Larry. https://www.facebook.com/larry.pollock/videos/1108012876700968
Our hope is that the evening will provide all of us with some new insights about what makes a compelling photograph, a good print and always something about light.
Feel free to bring multiple black and white prints and we’ll look at all of them as time allows.
Your Education Coordinators, Susan and Larry