Urban Messages

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Revisions

The earlier duplicate posts have been removed.

Part of the Rural Landscape

While B&W is my preferred palate, holding saturation on some colors(R/O top, Y/G below) helps to maintain the separation in image players that would minimized in the B&W image.

Time is not kind to even the strongest materials. Instability(above) and surface erosion(below) speed the passage to dust and only faded memories>

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Monday, May 23, 2011

As I move from one computer to another I find that the levels of contrast can vary significantly. This does not appear to affect color photos, but does have a dramatic impact on black and white images. For this reason I am making some adjustments to the images that appear on this blog.

I generally shoot down one stop to insure the capture of detail in the highlighted areas. The majority of the images that have been posted to date have only been sharpened and color saturation removed. Few, if any, have had exposure, brightness, contrast or fill light adjustments. This is a carryover from my film days of shooting as if no adjustments would be made during processing whenever possible. The majority of my images are in Portrait rather than Landscape, and with very few exceptions are 'as shot' with no crops, once again a holdover from my film days.

You will see a number of posts with the same titles and same pictures only with adjustments to counteract some of the digital screen variations. There are a few added images that were not processed with when the first posts took place. I have also increase the size of the images that can be viewed when you select an image for closer analysis.

New Images