An old neighborr and friend (Pisti) is helping me with B&W processing. I took a basic shot after skiing Wildcat of Mt Washington looking into the Tuckerman Ravine. Nice light, I thought, so I took an automatic shot off the Fuji for experimenting. Click through to the gallery shots. First up is a basic desaturated in darktable, using the building in monochrome module. Not bad I think. The next image is a blend of a GIMP c2g image over a basic desaturated image using a blending mode called DARKEN/LUMA. The final ( I guess I should post the original and the c2g version as well) is blended in GIMP from the same two layers but using PINLIGHT. Garish!
Let me know thoughts.
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Burial ground, Kings Chapel, Boston MA
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Tremont Street, Boston
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MIT Statue "Alchemist"
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Mt Washington - monochrome desaturate
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Mt Washington - c2g layer darken multiply mix
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Mt Washington - c2g layer pinlight mix
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Mt Washington - Masked
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Tree - Basic B&W
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Tree - Pseudogrey
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Tree - Levels edit in LAB space
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Old wooden hunk
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Granville Gulf waterfall encased in ice
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Inverted snow
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Ice rime on the chairlift
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Another of the steeple
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By the side of the road (1 of 3)
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By the side of the road (2 of 3)
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By the side of the road (3 of 3)
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Park Street tenement
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Melville Avenue homes in the setting later winter sun
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Flour bags, New York City, Chinatown, Sept 2020
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MS 131, New York City, September 2020