Experimenting with some new black and white conversion techniques I learned at Home – f.64 Elite (f64elite.com).
Westbury House Stairs
Black and White
Oyster Bay B&W
Conversions of two photographs from Oyster Bay – Sherry Felix – port4u and Hempstead Harbor – Sherry Felix – port4u to black and white.
Brooklyn Bridges
I felt these look better as black and white.
Renwick Smallpox Hospital
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.
Sources:
- Renwick Smallpox Hospital: An Abandoned Sanatorium in Manhattan, NY (opacity.us)
- Roosevelt Island Historical Society (rihs.us)
- wikipedia.org/Smallpox_Hospital
Washington Square
A classic view of a Washington Square Arch.
Bank Street Tree
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
While I tidy up my archives I paused to make this image.
Black and White from the Past
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