Yesterday I took some photos for the first time since I don't know when

[thewayne]

Firstly since I have been feeling like crap with constant sinus infections and antibiotic use since early March. Secondly since I've been mostly a home body with constant sinus infections and antibiotic use since early March. You get the picture. But I'm feeling much better since having the surgery a few weeks ago, though it's been up and down the last couple of days and today's more down than up.

Yesterday, though, I had to go down and get those anti-fungal pills, or at least two of the three prescribed. And there was this really cool cloud formation, so I stopped at the trestle overlook and shot this.

It should be noted that embiggening will probably fill your browser window.


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And then I loaded up DxO's Film Pack and played around with B&W conversions, and found that I kind of liked Ilford's HP5+ 400 conversion:


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Sadly, I screwed up and lost the Photoshop file for the original color, though I could recreate it with a bit of work.

I had a second shot of a flower in the foreground and the trestle in the background, but the depth of field just didn't work out. That's one weakness of the Lumix, it just doesn't do extreme DOF well. I intend to go out with my 6D and the 17-40 when I'm feeling a bit better.

Comments

[kellan_the_tabby]

Nice work!

[thewayne]

Thank you!  I really liked that one downpour sitting right there, it was a nice, natural, composition.  I intend to do some more work in Photoshop to see what else I can do with it.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Sounds like fun!

[makovette]

Ahh Ilford! Wonder if they are still in business... Used to do some astrophotos using their chemistry back in the day...

[thewayne]

They still exist, more or less. They’re no longer part of Ciba-Geigi, and basically make gallery inkjet paper. They don’t seem to have a presence in the USA, though I’m sure we could get their stuff with minimal effort. And they’ll be at Photokina later this month (man, I’d love to attend that show some year!)

https://ilford.com/about-us/history-heritage

My latest photography teacher lent me a book. A Canadian photo instructor, I think he lives near Rochester, NY, got an arts grant, and traveled to all these places where film and paper were made and the buildings were being torn down and documented them. Talk about book that’ll break your heart if you’re an old B&W fuddyduddy like me.

The book is The Disappearance of Darkness, here’s an Amazon URL.
Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era https://www.amazon.com/dp/1616890959/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_.d4JBb01JC42W