Tag: mono

Snow on the Hill

in one frame #5

Nikon D7000 + Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm ; f13; 1/200 sec; ISO200 – taken 15 January 2015.

When snow fell, I was up the River Irvine valley taking images of landscapes and skies. I think this is the first time, I’ve shown this photograph – appeals to me. Took it with a wide-angle lens to include loads of sky.

Triptychs

Monochrome Madness goes in for triptychs this week, thanks to the challenge by Elke at Pictures Imperfect Blog. I’ve not done this before – never even thought of doing a triptych. Gave it a try and found it quite easy to achieve. So I have a couple here. The first relates to a dress horse competition. I think I could improve on the relationship between the images but I’m quite pleased with this first attempt.

Next, Picking out some images from a local 10k run, I’ve put these three together.

You can click on these images to get larger presentations – unusual feature on this blog.

So, I’m quite taken by this idea. I’m going to put this in the back of my mind and will bring this out sometime again – who knows when?

Thanks again to Elke and Leanne and all involved with Monochrome-madness. If you like to see Elke’s challenge post, just click here

Mono-Minimalism

This week Ritva has set a challenge in the Lens-Artists series, to show minimalist photography in monochrome. It’s a great idea for a challenge and is the sort of photography that gets me thinking. I’ve taken one or two yesterday and also been searching my back catalogue for images that would fit the requirement.

So I’m looking for simple clean mono images with only a few elements that in some way have an aesthetic feel to them. I do like this idea.

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Frying Onions

in one frame #3

Nikon D7000 + nikkor 55-200mm @ 34mm ; f5; 1/800 sec; ISO1600

In the market, frying onions to go on the hotdogs. Where was this taken? Well, I think this is a scene that could be taken at any market anywhere in the world, with a some exceptions. All around the planet, there’s folk frying onions.

I’m attaching this to the Monochrome-Madness challenge for this week, titled ‘Markets’ it’s being hosted by Sarah at the ‘Travel with Me’. To see Sarah’s amazing collection of market images click here

Monochromatic

Why do you choose to use monochrome? The chimpanzee is puzzled too. But more of him later……

So, as soon as I got to the hill, I looked at the sky and thought, ‘Black and white’. It’s just like that sometimes. Straight away you know that you feel a mono image should work and the drama of the sky was a decider here.

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Monochrome Madness – The Old Mill

I thought I’d captured too much in this image and that focussing in on parts of the view might have been better. However, a bit of work to even out the exposure seemed to help. I was pleased with the way the sky came out and I like it enough to get it printed up. And it worked out as a mono which is good because it was pretty drab in colour.

Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge – which you can link to HERE. This also gives you info on how to join in to the challenge.

Here it is in Black and White

So here I am, back on-line again after a short illness – also recovered from the Euros!! – and things are about the same as they were before – feels restrictive despite recent changes. And so I’m grateful for Anne Saddler setting the Lens-Artists Challenge this week and her chosen topic, Black & White, is a favourite of mine. A subject I can get my teeth into.

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