Punk Island

[Stevenmarc]

Went to a multi-stage punk event in NYC today:

[Locut0s]

1. Cool, really like that 2nd shot!

The choice to make or shoot them in B&W really works with the material IMHO.

[Stevenmarc]

6. Thanks

Most of what I shoot on the street is B&W.

[handmade34]

2. "Punk Rock Makeovers"

love it!!

[Stevenmarc]

7. That one gave me a bit of a chuckle.

[Solly Mack]

3. Great shots!

[Stevenmarc]

8. Thank you

[Adsos Letter]

4. I like it!

I've been experimenting more and more with b&w, but haven't really produced anything much I feel comfortable with posting here.

Do you use NIK's Silver Efex plug-in? Just curious. I have it, but it obviously does no good without a good shot to begin with.

These are great shots!

[Stevenmarc]

5. Yes

I do use Nik, I pretty much use the whole suite. The control point technology is nothing short of genius and saved me hundreds of hours time of masking in my workflow.

I was shooting with a couple of cameras that day, one had an Eye-fi card automatically downloading to the phone, the post on the first shot was done on an iPhone using Snapseed, another Nik product, the other two were done the more conventional way.

[alfredo]

9. Play with colored filters when converting to see what that does. Yellow is a good choice for skin.

Want dark skies, use a Red filter when converting.


I use a green filter when converting foliage. It seems to bring out the different shades of the foliage.


Of course color filters can make banding in the sky more visible. Sometimes no filter is the right course to take.


YMMV

[Adsos Letter]

10. Thanks, alfredo.

Most of my problem comes with futzing around with my photos too much, I suspect. If I just put them up as they come from the camera (with maybe some cropping) I might get more suggestions on how to improve.

That, and I just don't consistently practice taking lots of photos. I tend to go in spurts, with long periods of no activity, which isn't helpful.

[alfredo]

11. I rarely go more than a few days without taking photos. Usually all I do is

crop/scale, Check white balance, and then adjust levels or curves if needed. If I am going to convert to B&W do that first.


I've been cranking up my color images to unreal levels here lately. I'm attracted to the warm colors one sees in Romantic Era landscape paintings. I'll get over it.

[Adsos Letter]

12. My thing is, especially with color, that I really like the look I get

from some of the processes available through post-processing, but they aren't necessarily realistic. Here are four examples (not that you asked for any examples) :

These three I like because they remind me of the old hand-tinted postcards:

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This last one I like because of the contrast between the tin pails and the flowers, and the spatial relationships...but it looks too much like a painting:


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