09-07-11 – Farktography Classic: Black and White 3

Holy hell U-Man. That farking sucks 🙁

That’s exactly what came to mind when I read that story. I’d be in the camera shop (or ordering online) to get a replacement the next day. You gotta get right back up on the bike and ride you know…

For those of you who aren’t facebook friends – check this shiat out. I copied my last status about the $3000 musky I caught today. 🙁

I went fishing today … and it just fell into the lake….

I’m never taking my camera in a boat again. I’d have nightmares. Sorry!

My #1 rule about using my camera is “ALWAYS use the neck strap.” (Rule #2 is “Take off the lens cap.”) Even with rule #1, I still get a bit nervous when taking aerial recon photos. My bag’s shoulder strap also gets wrapped around part of the airframe. I figure the worst that could happen then is I donate a lens to the local landscape.

I think now is the time to build a camera stand that rigidly mounts to the boat’s transom or gunwales. Of course if you do that, the next time the whole boat will capsize.

Back on topic: I totally forgot yesterday was Wednesday and didn’t do any prep work for this one, so I had to dig through my archives this morning to find some pics that look in B&W.

I think the portrait works well, except for the background, but even that looks better in monochrome since it’s actually red and distracts from the b&w polka-dot dress and pin-stripe suit.

The monastary shot was through a high window. Just put the camera on auto, hold it up over my head, and hope for the best. I just wish I would have already had the 10-24mm lens for that trip. Maybe I’ll take the shots of the Pri?ren from the hillside and stitch them together one of these days.

Wow U-Man, I take my camera out fishing all of the time. I haven’t used the tripod on the boat yet and now I never will. That is terrible, if you know where you lost it maybe you can dredge for it? I found a rod I lost by rigging up one of those old metal stringers with the hooks open and some lead attached. I bought a Lily Pod for use in the boat but haven’t tried it yet. BTW, your photos are always impressive.

U-Man: You had my sympathy….until your dig at Canon.

Really, though, a sickening story regardless of which brand. Makes me want to go hug my camera.

The tripod, if found, should be salvageable, right?

Ok, so U-Man, I’ve been trying to figure out your Children of the Corn lighting. I’m guessing you had a flash, but I can see sky with clouds above part of the corn, but other parts look flat black?

This was taken a few years back…

I had a flash and silver umbrella high (10 feet?) at 12 o’clock. It was afternoon so the flash acted as key but there was plenty of ambient. I processed it using the sliders in Photoshop’s Black & White tool.

Ah ok…I figured there was less ambient light than that. The flag black parts were maybe overexposed and just took on straight black from the b/w tool? I’m so out of my element with the whole “overpowering the sun with flash” thing…

You can get the cloudless parts of the sky pretty close to flat black without a flash at all using a deep red filter or the equivalent post-processing (i.e. totally eliminating the blue channel)