About the Image(s)

You all may be surprised that my image this month is a B&W image! Since others are experimenting with more and more color I thought I would do a B&W image. I have to say that I have a MS degree in Photographic Science, the technical side of photography, from the Rochester Institute of Technology, so I have spent many, many hours in the darkroom (starting when I was in my teens) developing B&W film and photos. However, I’ve never had a ‘close’ relationship with B&W and I prefer color. That is why I like IR because you can get very creative with color using IR as a base. This image, however, had very few tones in it so I thought it would make a good image to move to B&W.

I put the image through DXO’s PureRaw processor to do noise reduction and then the basic tonal adjustments in Lightroom. I tried moving it to DXO Silver Efex Pro but it didn’t add much, in my opinion, so I cancelled out of that and went back to Lightroom. I darkened the background to emphasis the milkweed pods and filaments. This is a 590nm image.

Specs: Nikon Z6 Tamron 28-200nm lens 590nmISO 3200
F/8 @ 1/2000 second Handheld on a breezy day