Post Your Black and Whites Photos!!
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Blue439
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I know this is quite a puzzling sight to behold at first... It is an “outside, looking in” view of a half-ruined tower in the Benedictine abbey of Charroux in France. That’s another one about which I could tell you a long and fascinating story... oh, all right, I won’t. 
(Phew!)
Anyway, I have a question for you: on the color version, the sky worked fine, but was too bland in black-and-white, so I decided to change it using the “Replace Sky” feature in Photoshop. My question for you is, Do you think the trick is noticeable? Would you have known if I hadn’t told you?
Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.
(Phew!)
Anyway, I have a question for you: on the color version, the sky worked fine, but was too bland in black-and-white, so I decided to change it using the “Replace Sky” feature in Photoshop. My question for you is, Do you think the trick is noticeable? Would you have known if I hadn’t told you?
Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.
lightcapture
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Clovishound
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I really didn't notice the sky at all until you said something. I might have gone with a little less dramatic sky, but everyone has a different taste on things. I doubt anyone would think it was a replacement just from looking at it.
It is a really striking image.
Bolampau
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Hi Blue439,I know this is quite a puzzling sight to behold at first... It is an “outside, looking in” view of a half-ruined tower in the Benedictine abbey of Charroux in France. That’s another one about which I could tell you a long and fascinating story... oh, all right, I won’t.
(Phew!)
Anyway, I have a question for you: on the color version, the sky worked fine, but was too bland in black-and-white, so I decided to change it using the “Replace Sky” feature in Photoshop. My question for you is, Do you think the trick is noticeable? Would you have known if I hadn’t told you?
Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.
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Yes, I can see that the sky has been added due to the light or dark transitions from the very edge of the pillars to sky. Like Clovishound wrote, the sky appears to be overly dramatic which made me look closer. I still like the photo though!
Robin W
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I would not have known at first glance but the clouds do make it appear to be a dark kind of day but I can see shadows that would indicate it is a sunny day. So with that in mind I think I should be suspicious, but I also have not seen the color version.I know this is quite a puzzling sight to behold at first... It is an “outside, looking in” view of a half-ruined tower in the Benedictine abbey of Charroux in France. That’s another one about which I could tell you a long and fascinating story... oh, all right, I won’t.
(Phew!)
Anyway, I have a question for you: on the color version, the sky worked fine, but was too bland in black-and-white, so I decided to change it using the “Replace Sky” feature in Photoshop. My question for you is, Do you think the trick is noticeable? Would you have known if I hadn’t told you?
Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.
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Blue439
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The Saint Hillary church in the village of Melle (Saintonge province, western France) is a beautiful Romanesque church from the early 1100s. What I am showing today, however, is part of the polished marble “installation” done in the choir by Matthieu Lehanneur, the French artist who recently became more famous worldwide for having designed the large bowl or basin and the balloon for the olympic flame at the 2024 Paris Olympics. This very modern “piece”, for want of a better word, is extremely surprising at first, but I must admit that, even for someone like me who do not appreciate modern-day intrusions in my “old stones”, it works rather well and is respectful of the canons of traditional Christian faith.
Those lovely rippling waves of stone are very dangerous, though, and stepping on them by mistake is almost sure to result in a twisted ankle and a severe fall. It almost happened to me, and I’m sure it happened several times to various priests as they were focused on performing their duties and not paying particular attention to precisely where they were stepping... I am sure they learned the hard way!
The central piece is the altar, the one of the left the Gospel pulpit.
Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 PC-E tilt-shift macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light, single exposure.
Those lovely rippling waves of stone are very dangerous, though, and stepping on them by mistake is almost sure to result in a twisted ankle and a severe fall. It almost happened to me, and I’m sure it happened several times to various priests as they were focused on performing their duties and not paying particular attention to precisely where they were stepping... I am sure they learned the hard way!
The central piece is the altar, the one of the left the Gospel pulpit.
Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 PC-E tilt-shift macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light, single exposure.
Dawg Pics
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How are you managing, in multiple images, to catch people not looking at their phones? Cell phones have pretty much destroyed street photography for me. Everybody is looking down while walking.
Clovishound
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It's not just street photography they are destroying!
Peter7100
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I know what you mean and the one that gets me is when you see them crossing the road looking at their phones instead of the traffic. I think I have just been lucky although I do tend to look to see what people are doing before taking a pic. Occasionally I like the odd one with someone looking at their phone.
You've been putting up some quite interesting B&W images.