Black and White Photo 5-day Challenge: Day 3

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architecture, art, black and white, fine art, photoaday, Photography

The neverending stories!

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It has taken me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉

What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂 

Today, I nominate Lucile of bridging lacunas, who shares her wonderful photography and words on her blog.

Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you dodecide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀

On the edge of opportunity

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architecture, art, daily, doors, photo101, Postaday

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

The red door

In response to the Photo 101 prompt of edge – “Today is all about straight edges, and tweaking your image to ensure your lines are perfectly positioned.”

My go to editing program is Lightroom, I love the way the program is so intuitive. I did try straightening my images in Photoshop before I started using Lightroom several years ago now, I just found it much more complicated.

All my photos are imported into Lightroom initially from my SD card, where I use the library to organise them (that will be another post one day, I am sure). I then do most of my editing in Lightroom, including of course straightening them, if required that is. Once these are done I do any texture work or “artistic edits”, together with adding my logo in Photoshop CC (prior to having the photographers subscription with Adobe, I used to use Elements). Then that is generally job done!

What’s behind door number 4?

Capital city architecture

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architecture, art, black and white, blogging101, Canada, daily, photo101, photoaday, Photography, Places

Parliament Buildings

I looked at my email on Blogging 101, then headed off to check what theme was on the daily post (well it was Places when I checked at 8am GMT this morning!
), I then headed over to my email for Photo 101 and when I saw that it was on architecture, I had a little jump for joy, as I knew I could do a post to incorporate all three 🙂 All these photos were taken whilst my family was on holiday in Canada last year visiting my relatives.

Parliament Buildings (original)

The brief for Photo 101 was “”Study architectural forms, and also train your eye to look for shots that will translate well in black and white.”

I have taken quite a few photos of architecture since I started shooting in digital, it is not the genre that I feel most comfortable with, mainly I think due to lack of practice, but that does not stop me taking photos 🙂

Reflections of old

Reflections of old (original)

What is your preference, do you prefer these in black and white or colour, do my conversions work? (all of these were processed in Lightroom). I would LOVE to know what you think.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church (original)

I have a few sites that I bookmarked as of interest on architectural photography, so thought I would share three of them here as I know it is something I would like to practice. After all there is architecture all around us and the UK has some very old examples as well as new for me to practice on:

• Photoblur – I loved the abstract nature of the photographs here and the 10 tips are very good.
• Exposure Guide – some good tips on architecture as well as other genres
• Light Stalking – a nice article with some good points