18 Jun 13. For this Tuesday's B&W image I've elected to go with a shot from out local beach, Eglon Beach, that I took one day with the cherubs. They of course were off playing along the surf line, while I was having a great time working with the clouds and the shoreline. Near the high tide part of the beach sits a large tree stump that washed ashore sometime back, and will likely be where it is until we experience another "get your attention" storm. Meanwhile, it is positioned such that one can use it for photographic purposes, and in this instance, I chose to contrast the texture of the bark with that of the clouds. The clouds received some separate work first, followed by a similar approach, but to a much lessor degree, on the stump. Then I converted the image to B&W - just for today - increased the contrast, removed a bit of "noise" from the sky caused by the texture application earlier, and finally added a subtle vignette. Then it was flattened and converted to a jpeg. The result is what you see. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/640 sec @ f / 9.

18 Jun 13. For this Tuesday's B&W image I've elected to go with a shot from out local beach, Eglon Beach, that I took one day with the cherubs. They of course were off playing along the surf line, while I was having a great time working with the clouds and the shoreline. Near the high tide part of the beach sits a large tree stump that washed ashore sometime back, and will likely be where it is until we experience another "get your attention" storm. Meanwhile, it is positioned such that one can use it for photographic purposes, and in this instance, I chose to contrast the texture of the bark with that of the clouds. The clouds received some separate work first, followed by a similar approach, but to a much lessor degree, on the stump. Then I converted the image to B&W - just for today - increased the contrast, removed a bit of "noise" from the sky caused by the texture application earlier, and finally added a subtle vignette. Then it was flattened and converted to a jpeg. The result is what you see. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/640 sec @ f / 9.