Tag Archives: Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge

Waves and rocks in black and white

December 9, 2021 XingfuMama 3 Comments

I associate Hawaii with color. But I took several photos during the blue hour and they aren’t exceptionally colorful, so I tried a few of them out in black and white.

Waves crashing on the lava rocks at the edge of Sandy Beach on Oahu in Hawaii. Photo processed using Raw Therapee and the GIMP with Nik's Silver Effects plug-in. — Morning waves at Sandy Beach on Oahu

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Matching Things (it’s a stretch, but they are waves hitting the same lava rocks with the same clouds in the sky.)

All photos were taken with my Sony RX10iv. I use Raw Therapee to do the basic adjustments then load the resulting .tif files into the GIMP. I used Nik Silver effects to convert to black and white, then did some touch up and added a vignette using the GIMP.

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Everything is just ducky

March 18, 2021 XingfuMama 11 Comments

For Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome and Cee’s Black and White: anything that can fly…and Lisa’s Bird Weekly.

photo processing, Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Late fall close-ups

December 2, 2020 XingfuMama 9 Comments

All of these were converted to black and white using Nik Silver Effects Pro.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: close-ups.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Natural textures-in black and white

November 2, 2020 XingfuMama 11 Comments

Every so often I take a picture because the pattern of the light catches my attention. While these are not exactly regular patterns they do have regularity to them.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Patterns in nature.

and Heyjude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #44: Black and White with the instruction: Look for patterns.

Snapshots from a Happy Life

Coming from behind

July 27, 2020 XingfuMama 13 Comments

This is a really random assortment.

We wound up behind this truck for quite a while. It seems like he was reading our minds.

Just for fun here is an antique-y sort of effect applied to a couple of them.

I kind of like this effect, like he is materializing from mist.

I couldn’t resist applying the old-time, romantic sort of look to the mighty johns…just for a giggle.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Back of things, and of course the back of things is also a Perspective, for Becky of Winchester’s July Squares.

Flowers

More clover- close-up and black and white

July 10, 2020 XingfuMama 11 Comments

I’m still playing with this seed head of clover that caught my eye the other morning…and with black and white.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Close-ups or Macros.

China, photo processing, photography techniques

Store signs in black and white

July 1, 2020 XingfuMama 1 Comment

As I mentioned in an earlier post I’ve been experimenting with black and white photo processing. I’ve also been trying to get my photos a bit better organized. These two have come together for Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge this week: some photos from trips I made to China, specifically Shandong Province, over the years, focusing on the signs on store front signs.

I used Nik Silver Efex Pro, an older version of it that I got some times ago, while it was a free plug-in for the GIMP. I think you have to pay for Nik now.

If you click on any of the pictures it will expand and you can scroll through them at a larger size. Some of them got quite small in the tiled gallery.