Black & White

Black and White from the Past

Sherry Felix16 Comments

For most of the pandemic I have been taking courses at F64 Elite by Blake Rudis. April’s challenge is to submit 2 dramatic black and white images for a possible critique. I converted four in my archives, being sure to have some absolute black and white in each, and sent in the first two below. Blake also posts many free tutorials on YouTube. I am also enjoying PixImperfect tutorials by Unmesh Dinda on the YouTube.

  • Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn 4/29/2012
  • High Line 5/8/2016
  • Common Starling, Central Park 10/28/2016
  • Court Chairs in the Mist 1/1/2000

NYBG B and W

Sherry Felix5 Comments

I spent a day in the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY last weekend with the Sierra Photo NY group. We split up and went our own way and met up for lunch and dinner.

This first post in the series of four posts are photographs I either unsaturated parts of or made completely black and white.

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Planting Fields Arboretum B and W

Sherry Felix3 Comments

It was such a hot day on Saturday at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Long Island, NY that it subdued my mood. I came with a group of photgraphers and everyone split up, so I spent most of the day alone. I processed these to show how I felt.

For those who like to know. I took the image from Lightroom to Photoshop, applied a black and white filter or converted it to black and white using onOne Effects, then added a brown gradient map with blue in the mid tones in Photoshop. For the lavender and roses I masked out the flowers on an additional violet or pink gradient map.

  • Old wall, Planting Fields Arboretum, LI, NY 6/29/2019
  • Planting Fields Arboretum, LI, NY 6/29/2019
  • Planting Fields Arboretum, LI, NY 6/29/2019
  • Planting Fields Arboretum, LI, NY 6/29/2019
  • Lavender, Planting Fields Arboretum, LI, NY 6/29/2019
  • Rose trellis, Planting Fields Arboretum, LI, NY 6/29/2019

Barrett Fountain

Sherry Felix4 Comments

This fountain honors children’s book author Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924). The Conservatory Garden, which reopened to the public in 1937, was chosen as the perfect site for this memorial erected by Friends of Burnett. The reclining boy playing the flute and a young girl holding the bowl may represent Mary and Dickon, the main characters in The Secret Garden. The bowl is a functioning birdbath where small birds drink.

Barrett Fountain, Central Park Conservatory Garden 5/20/2019
From Wikipedia

Hibiscus Sketch

Sherry Felix8 Comments

It’s been a while since I played with Corel Photo-Paint. I love the sketch effects. Using a combination of effects and layers I am able to adjust things until I am happy with it. This is the same red hibiscus I posted previously reinterpreted.

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Hibiscus sketch