Sparrows Near Museum
Second light snow of the season. I hurried out to visit the park as it was starting, and stayed until it had stopped (a few hours). I heard them first, chirping away. I was shooting with the 30mm and I expected them to take off as I got closer, but I was practically (not this shot) in the branches, my yellow parka hood brushing up against them, but these guys didn’t budge.
Very good.
Craig M. Nisnewitz
January 10, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Don’t know why this photo triggered this question, but you mentioned once you were going to post something about the way you transform an RGB image in greyscale. Have you given any more thought to that?
Chris Klug
January 11, 2009 at 6:19 am
Chris – I will do a recording of keystrokes and screens some day; but it isn’t so straight-forward and every image is treated differently. But there’s no magic secrets here. Transform the image to grayscale in Lightroom and then go into a trance and figure out what it is supposed to be. Imagining what can be done with the image; trying to give it a place in the world that is unique; in short, what needs to be dodged; what needs to be burned; and what else can you do to get a particular feeling across. As I say – different for every image.
Dave Beckerman
January 11, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Understood. I transform each image like I shoot, very unconsciously. I look at it, and I start moving sliders or picking a profile for the image (I work in capture One before I move the images into Lightroom). ‘Trance’ you say. I say ‘unconsciously’ but I know we’re talking about the same thing. We look at the image and respond to it. I chatted (in email) with Markus Hartel about his method, and while I don’t use it exactly hardly ever, I learned a lot about digitally processing images just from having the chat. More in the realm of ‘tricks up my sleeve’ rather than ‘THE method to use.” Beneath all the discussion he issue for me is this: When I shoot in HP5 and scan the images, I like them a lot better than when I shoot digitally and then transform them. And the ‘what’ of the things I like about the scanned neg should be definable, but my thinking today is that it lies in the area of my lack of skill with Photoshop or something. Anyhoo, I like your new layout and theme, and your work, as always, is inspirational. Thanks for posting.
Chris Klug
January 12, 2009 at 4:05 am