High Rise
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Posts tagged ‘blackandwhite’
Haagse Poort (Gateway to Den Haag)
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High Key
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First Spring Day Sunset
The first Sunset of Spring.
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Leiden Breestraat
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Dirty Windows
Over looking Den Haag Central Station.
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Binckhorst, if only I could walk over water
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Den Haag Binckhorst
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Bicycle Passing By 3
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – March 2025
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Bicycle Passing By 2
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Bicycle Passing By
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Under The Roof
The mobility hub above Den Haag Central Station.
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Downside Up Duck
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – February 2025
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Duck Bath
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On the horizon
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Where Old Meets New aka Advertising Space
This week Lens Artist Photo Challenge #335 is exploring color versus monochrome aka black and white. Compare a color photo with a monochrome print of it. What works better?
A few days ago I published a resembling shot in color and mono. This post differs from the earlier ones. The tree on the right went out of the frame. And a very modern advertising pole pops up in the background.
My love for the bleak colors of Winter’s light are the same. But I prefer this mono version, even if it was originally shot in color. GrainLab is a great tool, and the atmosphere of the photo is ‘old’ but the view is modern.
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Meet The Ducks
This week Lens Artist Photo Challenge #335 is exploring color versus monochrome aka black and white. Compare a color photo with a monochrome print of it. What works better?
Two landscapes, originally shot in color. I do prefer the monochrome version. That was tweaked with GrainLab.
Yesterday I publiced this one in color. I do like it, the bleak colors of Winter light are nice. But I prefer this mono version, even if it was originally shot in color. The dark spots are much more toned and I do like the grain feel of Kodak Tri X.
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Back Up
This week Lens Artist Photo Challenge #335 is exploring color versus monochrome aka black and white. Compare a color photo with a monochrome print of it. What works better?
I tend to think in black and white at most moments. Just my preference. And if I can I shoot just in a mono mode on my iPhone or my recent purchased Nikon Zf.
Yesterday I publiced this one in color. I do like it, the bleak colors of Winter light are nice. But I prefer this mono version, even if it was originally shot in color,
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Grey and Flat
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Magnolia Up Close
The Magnolia in the front garden is slowly waking up from Winter.
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Crying Winter
A wet Winter.
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All Along The Watertower
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy Essex countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal.
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Capturing Foggy Countryside: We Stand Alone – Stowmarket, Suffolk
England, Stowmarket – Little Stonham – December 2024
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy Suffolk countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal. This is another one I used GrainLab to put in an analogue grain feeling. It softened the darks and gave the photo a more balanced view in the highlights. Snapseed tends to distort big surfaces in the sky, and this is a nice retouch effect to repair that.
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Capturing Foggy Countryside: England Roadside Views – Stowmarket, Suffolk
Ending the year in the UK, a roadside view from the car over a foggy Suffolk countryside. Hence the sharpness is not optimal. This is the first time I used GrainLab to put in an analogue grain feeling. It softened the darks and gave the photo a more balanced view in the highlights. Snapseed tends to distort big surfaces in the sky, and this is a nice retouch effect to repair that.
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (7)
The last in a series of seven photos, taken on a foggy morning from the J.H. Oortbrug in Oegstgeest.
The photos can be found in the archive Oegstgeester Kanaal, link down here.
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (6)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (5)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (4)
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Impressions of a bridge in Autumn (3)
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (2)
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2024
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Impressions of a bridge in Winter (1)
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Monochrome Autumn
The Netherlands, Oegstgeest – December 2024
One of the first photos of my new camera, the Nikon Zf. A retro FM2 on the outside but on the inside full of brilliant Nikon Z technology. Its a real hands on camera, with manual settings. I’m learning to use it. One of the reasons to buy it was the availability of three monochrome presets.
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Another Bridge
Crossed to a new year, 2025 is just started. I wish everyone a wonderful 2025 in good health, with loads of love and moments in which wishes become reality. Where we can talk and bridge judgments.
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Monochrome Leaves
The first photos of my new camera, the Nikon Zf. A retro FM2 on the outside but on the inside full of brilliant Nikon Z technology. Its a real hands on camera, with manual settings. I’m learning to use it. One of the reasons to buy it was the availability of three monochrome presets.
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Dry Feet
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Museum at night (2)
The Scheepvaartmuseum/National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
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Museum at Night (1)
The cellar of the Scheepvaartmuseum/National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
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Klinkenberger Plas
The Klinkenberger Plas in Autumn.
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Drawing Lines
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – November 2024
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Saving Lifes
The Netherlands, Katwijk aan Zee – November 2024
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Intentional Creative Movement – Bicycle
This week’s Lens Artitsts Photo Challenge (#321) is Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). These photos are from a workshop in 1997 in France, where we had to create movement with a low shutter speed while following the subject. Basically a fun excercise but done on film. So the result literally came to light after developing the film. The excitement and anxiety about the possible results were out of scale! Patience.
These film archives are the source of my B4 retouch series.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
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Exploring the Amsterdam-Sloterdijk Power Plant
A fossil power plant on smoke, next to the A5 in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk.
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Terrace Life
LAPC #316 is ‘Finding beauty in unexpected places’.
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Coming In – Going Out
Incoming and outgoing traffic at Schiphol Amsterdam. Just a drive by, and no worries, I was not driving the car.
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Dramatic Monochrome Skies Over The Netherlands – August 2024
The sky over The Netherlands is a wonderful object for photos, we do have lot of sky over our flat land above the low horizon. And that sky can be quite dramatic, even more in monochrome.
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Windmill De Valk in Leiden, Netherlands – A Living Museum Since 2000
Windmill De Valk is one of few left in the city. It is a museum, but since 2000 is it being used for milling again.
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Capturing the Charm of Paris: Balcony and French Windows in December 1993
LAPC 309 is about balconies. I have to admit that I do not pay special attention to balconies, unless they trigger me as I look around and they catch my eye. I do however ‘collect’ French windows. So occasionally they pop up in a frame. This is one of those, in one of my favourite cities, Paris. From the analogue archive of December 1993.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
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Grey Rainy Sky Regatta in Warmond, Netherlands
A small regatta on its way under a grey rainy sky.
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Horses
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Rowing Backwards
At rowing you move forward by looking backwards all the time, and with a cox the course is set.
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What's (in) the Picture? 