Reply With QuoteI like that! I love high contrast black and white. How did you set it up?
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First snow
Spontaneous snowball fight in the street.
/Hampus
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I like that! I love high contrast black and white. How did you set it up?
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wonderful photo, hampus!
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Thank youOriginally Posted by Tio Kimo
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Hello!
The photo was shot on the street. I was out walking with my brother and his girlfriend and they started to throw snowballs at each other. I stepped back and started photographing. I used an Olympus OM-D E-M5 and Olympus 45mm f/1.8.
The post processing is done in Adobe Lightroom 4.0 with the Silver Efex pro 2 plugin from Nik Software. I enhanced the contrast a bit, then really went to town on the structure slider to bring out the structure in the snow. Then I selectively increased the exposure a bit on the face and took it down on the snowball and on the sign over the head. I cropped a bit off the top of the picture and dodged the upper and the left side to help put focus on the combattant.
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Cool! It reminds me of high contrast shots I used to take back in the day using Tri-x Pan 400. I liked the high contrast, almost grainy quality sometimes as an effect. Your shot hearkens that effect to me.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
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Tri-X! Man, SLV, you're dating yourself! As a young person said to me in a similar context recently: "Man, that is so 19th century!" I wanted to correct him and say, "Make that 20th century!", but it seemed rather pointless on second thought...
Agreed, Hampus - that is a nice 'print' (there - dating myself!) of a cool photo.
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Outstanding framing and post production! I use Silver Efex myself and love it.
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Yeah great job on the shot and the post work. Excellent piece
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