Black and White – Sherry Felix

Oyster Bay B&W

2023-01-082023-01-07Sherry Felix2 Comments

Conversions of two photographs from Oyster Bay – Sherry Felix – port4u and Hempstead Harbor – Sherry Felix – port4u to black and white.

Brooklyn Bridges

2022-07-312022-07-24Sherry Felix2 Comments

I felt these look better as black and white.

Renwick Smallpox Hospital

2022-03-012022-03-02Sherry Felix15 Comments

The Renwick Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island was built in 1856 from designs by James Renwick, Jr. It is the only landmarked ruin in New York City. Being a ruin is what gives it an air of mystery and charm.

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Washington Square

2022-02-11Sherry Felix10 Comments

A classic view of a Washington Square Arch.

Bank Street Tree

2022-02-012022-02-01Sherry Felix12 Comments

I had this dark processing in mind when I photographed this tree in the snow. The third of these three processing methods is an inverted image that makes it look a little like an infrared image.

Method: In Photoshop I cloned out the windows, added a starburst protecting the darks, added a vignette, converted it to B&W, and added a blur and masking out the center. In the third one I inverted the image as well.

Contributed to the One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-February 2022

Lit Reeds

2021-12-302022-08-15Sherry Felix10 Comments

While I tidy up my archives I paused to make this image.

Black and White from the Past

2021-04-02Sherry 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.

Planting Fields Arboretum B and W

2019-07-022019-07-04Sherry 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.