Tag Archives: B&W

Tortured and Twisted Dancing Trees

Posted on December 7, 2016 by lensaddiction

These dead trees were on the edge of the Hooker Track carpark and caught my eye after taking some *more* photos of mountains towering above me 🙂 Initially I had my exposure down a stop but when looking at it … Continue reading →

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Black and White Bikes

Posted on February 25, 2016 by lensaddiction

I went into the city on Saturday to take photos for my Earthquake Anniversary post.  The repeating patterns of these bikes all lined up in a row caught my eye. When I crouched down to get a better angle, I … Continue reading →

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BW Blended Composition

Posted on January 22, 2016 by lensaddiction

Session 3 of my Creative Black&White course takes us into the land of compositing, blending images or parts of images to make a new image. This kind of compositing I find really challenging and have spent the last few days … Continue reading →

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Further Exploration of Lightroom

Posted on January 8, 2016 by lensaddiction

Session One of the Creative Black and White course started this week and it takes you back to basics with editing your image in colour then continuing to edit it in the BW module in Lightroom. Our exercise is to … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with Black and White in Lightroom

Posted on January 5, 2016 by lensaddiction

I signed up for a Creative Black and White Photography course that lasts for 4 weeks, starting tomorrow NZ time.  As part of the Introduction we got some pointers on using just Lightroom to process a BW image.  Much of … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with BW Conversions in Lightroom

Posted on December 27, 2015 by lensaddiction

I purchased the new Creative Black and White Photography course and have watched the Intro videos (The deal is still available here) and one of the major benefits of the course is it will take us in detail through several … Continue reading →

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One Four Challege – Nov Wk 2

Posted on November 9, 2015 by lensaddiction

Week 2 of the Nov One Four Challenge, this month being hosted by Nic (click here for details if you are new to the challenge) I often find myself doing a BW conversion in this week, not entirely sure why.  … Continue reading →

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Seascape in Black and White

Posted on December 28, 2014 by lensaddiction

Yes, dear readers, I had to do a Black and White conversion on yesterdays image:) When I was composing this image, the style of Robin Whalley – Lightweight Photographer – was in my mind.  He does many lovely seascapes and … Continue reading →

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