From Just Missed to Right On
I’ve been going through my files finding shots that I consider “just misses”. These are mostly shots that have nice compositions but missed on the lighting. In most cases the lighting is to flat. I then start playing with these shots in black and white and something amazing happens. Hidden inside these “just misses” are beautiful black and white images. Here are four “just misses” that have metamorphosed into awesome black and whites.
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Awesome Steve…….. Years ago we pulled out lots of really old family photo’s from Cecil’s Family that his folks had. Cecil took pictures with his 35mm camera with color film…..they turned out amazing. We laid them down on something dark as to not distract from the picture itself….but now we have our own pic’s and of course into our computer they went. So, don’t miss an opportunity to grab up old photo’s and take new pictures before the photo’s get warn out with age. Of course this was before we had a scanner to scan things into the computer. Keep the pic’s coming Steve….
Hard to believe that one on the bottom left didn’t look good in color. Ansel Adams would be proud.
It looked pretty good. But the black and white is much more striking.
Here’s the link to the color one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sierravisions/253857662/in/set-72157611135740661/
When I add contrast to the color one it just doesn’t look right. In black and white the contrast looks amazing.
Wow that’s amazing. The black and white image looked to me like “super-tall” mountains – like photos of Mount McKinley in Alaska (incl a famous Adams one, I think). The color shows that they are much lower – and I didn’t see the Mono Craters label until after I had that impression.
Good saves.
I’ve found with some of my photos, cropping them in a 1:2 ratio (wider format similar to a 6×12 camera) sometimes fixes the photo.
I think the worse though, is when you have good composition, good lighting, good scene. But then when you get home you realize one of you’re dog’s hairs got on the back of the lense when you swapped out lenses. And you end up with this…
http://www.luminous-exposure.com/Test/Sierra/IMG_1821.jpg
Oh man that sucks. That’s a pretty easy fix in Photoshop though. Want me to take a shot at it Mike? If you haven’t already.
I’ve never had that happen to me personally. But when I worked at Speed of Light Photo in Mammoth we had a lady bring in 20 rolls of film from a trip she made to Africa. At least half of them had a hair like that in them. She brought in the camera and sure enough the hair was still in there. I felt so bad for her.
I’ve been playing around with cropping a lot lately. It’s amazing how many good compositions can be found within a composition. I even play around with cropping on shots that I’m happy with. I do it to try to broaden my eye, to see what works and what doesn’t. Even after 21 years of this I’m still trying to improve any way I can.
Thanks for the offer. I was able to clean it up in photoshop, it just took some time.
I’ve always been a fan of panoramic photography…waiting for the day you can get a 617 digital type camera affordably. =)
That would be cool. Guess until then we have to stitch panos.