Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
Shop deviantART for the
holidays and save BIG!
Click here! :holly:
[x]

deviantART

:date:
 
©2006-2009 ~halo-monk
:iconhalo-monk:

Artist's Comments

:bulletblue:Motivation, When and Where:
This was taken a while ago (Jul 22, 2006, 8:35:27 PM :O on my first DA bday, this makes it even more special :aww:). I was invited to a gallery opening by Dominic’s (one photographed, also goes by the name of ~fuckartletsdance ) mum, who happened to be one of the hosts, whose work was being featured. Had a blast looking at all the crazy work and i guess had few too many beers. Next thing I knew we were out shooting.

The best part of it all was the fact that I was oblivious to what was going on, Hackney is definitely not the part of London you want to be hanging around with a 500 quid worth of equipment round your neck. Call me crazy but we still carried on, playing pretty much a grown up version of "you’re it" on the way.

I was crazy enough to hide at this laundrette. I was stoked, the backdrop full of heavenly ambient lighting and the cliché washing machines. Hiding behind the bin was bloody hard, yet somehow I managed to wait it out for him to come in without making a sound. And there he was in the doorway, looking around, looking like a punk after a bad nights sleep. And the moment was there. My 55mm macro-nikkor prime never fails :aww: , with the aperture set to f/22 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second I decided to make a break for it. And this is how the image was born. I chose f/22 because I wanted to capture darker tones since I was gonna convert this to B&W afterwards in Photoshop where I would have most likely stripped it off its prior appearance, plus its given me a lovely DOF, and 1/30 of a sec has given me a lovely movement in the picture as Dominic was reaching for the door knob. It is indeed an unusual thing to see a punk "spring cleaning" and seeing "them" in a laundrette would be even weirder so I would say I had captured quite a peculiar moment right there.


:bulletgreen:Exposure Info:

Model: NIKON D50
Shutter Speed: 1/30th of a second
F Number: F/22 (manual apperture ring, camera couldn't read that off)
ISO: 200


:bulletred:Method of Conversion:
Since the d50 doesn't have a monochromatic function, photograph had to be converted in photoshop from Colour to B&W. Now this is my method:

1. Auto Levels
2. Select only blue channel
3. Go to Greyscale Mode, disregard other channels
4. Go back to RGB Mode
5. Create a New Adjustment Layer, with Gradient Map. Set the gradient to go from black to white, thus #000000 to #ffffff
6. Create a New Adjustment Layer, with Hue/Saturation. Set Saturation to -100%
7. And last and probably most important. Create a New Adjustment Layer, with Channel Mixer.
Tick the Monochromatic option,
Set RED to +34%,
Set GREEN to +118%,
Set BLUE to -8%,
Set Contrast to -8%,
Click OK and you're finished.


Thank You very much for tuning in,
Tom

Comments


love 2 2 joy 1 1 wow 0 0 mad 1 1 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:icondippedfeather:
indeed it looks great! i like the feel to it, and black and white is always good with street photography :) funny story too

--
hi stranger
:iconhalo-monk:
:P absolutely...i love the guy, he's hillarious and brilliant as a my shooting monkey. Don't think any photo that i had of him ever turned out bad, hes my lucky charm :aww:

have to agree with u about street and b&w. B&W have a much better contrast, and sometimes do tell a much better story than the colour ones. They have a destinct story line while and no distractions liek teh colour ones have.

Thank You very much for the fav,
Tom

--
↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔
|tom tirins creations|

help the starving artists...click some ads!
:icontepara:
Isnt this what you submitted before? or am I seeing things again? :P

--
#Black-White-Club Where you can find the best B&W and sepia art on dA.
=DeviantArtSecret Share your secrets.
A stranger is just someone you havent met yet!
#AoAClub Let the admin know you love them :heart:
:iconhalo-monk:
it is it is! but teh compo version wasnt allowed to be cropped...so i had to re-do the whole thing from scratch. :) i need to submit this for the club :aww:

--
↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔
|tom tirins creations|

help the starving artists...click some ads!
:icontepara:
:aww: Oks hun :hug:

--
#Black-White-Club Where you can find the best B&W and sepia art on dA.
=DeviantArtSecret Share your secrets.
A stranger is just someone you havent met yet!
#AoAClub Let the admin know you love them :heart:
:iconcartersan:
thats awesome. i loved this photo before.
good luck with the competition :)

--
and thats when the police arrived.
:icondippedfeather:
hehe, lucky charm ^^ he does look rather funky =P

and I was just wondering...why is your method of black and white conversion so complicated? i usually just change the mode to greyscale and then go to levels and click the black eyedrop thingy and pick the darkest part of the picture and then click on the white eyedrop thingy and then select the lightest part of the picture...sorry if i didn't make sense >< anyway, does your more complicated method make the final image look a lot better?

--
hi stranger
:iconocs:
:))))))))
lovley shot :))
nice hair :))

--
nmjmhfnh
:icondottordark:
man . what a picture . just great
:iconhalo-monk:
:lol: you tell me...i personally think this method is more appropriate for high key b&w, other than that it octualy reduces the quality of the image, making it more noisy since i am only using information from one channel

--
↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔↔
|tom tirins creations|

help the starving artists...click some ads!

Details

October 19, 2006
189 KB
1000×665

Statistics

56
37 [who?]
1,603 (0 today)

Camera Data

NIKON CORPORATION
NIKON D50
10/300 second
F/1.0
0 mm
Jul 22, 2006, 8:35:27 PM

Share

Link
Embed
Thumb

Site Map