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Tag Archives: Solarization
Autumn_Differently
Strolling around with a camera, on the look-out for the next image to capture, I enjoy the challenge of attempting something different. These are often experimental ideas. The results commonly end up being deleted back home, but there is sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Uncategorized
Tagged Autumn, Black and White Photography, Fall, Panning, Photography, Solarization
11 Comments
Light Streams
In the course of the last week or two I’ve been pruning the archive. It’s a necessary task as hard disk space gets swallowed up. Images that no longer hold appeal or have been duplicated (or bettered) can be binned, … Continue reading
Posted in Black & White
Tagged Black and White Photography, Photography, Solarisation, Solarization
21 Comments
On the stairs
Solarizing a B&W image in Photoshop is very simple and is always unpredictable. What surprised me on this occasions was the way the process handled an elliptical cloud that hung over these steps – it was the cloud that had … Continue reading
Posted in Black & White
Tagged Black and White Photography, Photography, Solarization, Staircase
11 Comments
Departing
We are finally departing. The packing up is complete, the house lies empty – a mere shell of its former self, the windows like soulless eyes. New owners will now create, craft and shape a new home. We wish them … Continue reading
Posted in A Personal Viewpoint
Tagged Black and White Photography, Photography, Solarization
10 Comments
At the end of the passageway_2
This follows on from my previous post. I was on my way from Charing Cross to Southbank via Hungerford Bridge. About a minute’s walk after taking the images in Passing By, you reach a long narrow closed-in passageway. A bit … Continue reading
Posted in London, The Human touch
Tagged Charing Cross, Hungerford Bridge, London, Mackie Line, Photography, Solarization
12 Comments
Solarized Roof
Milton Keynes is home to one of the longest indoor ski slopes in the UK. This image shows part of the Xscape’s roof inside which is the SnoZone. Today’s image started off life as a rather unremarkable picture taken on … Continue reading
Posted in Black & White
Tagged Milton Keynes, Photography, Solarization, Solarized, Xscape
10 Comments
At the end of the Passageway
The image today is a type of image that has been shot so many times before, that it has become hackneyed; and your immediate reaction may be: ‘Oh No, not another…’ But faced with a classic passageway and a figure … Continue reading
Balcony and Chair
I spotted this on a walkabout in the Theatre district of MK a few days ago. This is a building I’ve walked past on many occasions, but perhaps I hadn’t looked up at it from this direction before. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture & Buildings
Tagged Balcony, Black and White Photography, Milton Keynes, Photography, Solarization
21 Comments
The Stadium
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again: B&W is a much more tolerant medium than colour. It allows us to exaggerate contrast, to distort the tonal range, create mood, and at the extremes produce images that, I recall … Continue reading