There are scenes which just scream black and white. Already while shooting you know this should be converted to black and white. The sky in reality really wasn't that dramatic, just white and grey clouds, with a bit of blue in between. But given some contrast and converted to bw this looks completely different.. I also liked that the highlights from the flowing water in the river somehow balanced the highlights in the sky.

Post was some exposure blending and then bw conversion using multiple channel-mixers. then my usual contrast work using luminance masks as I show in my Start2Finish Post Processing Tutorial.

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This is a fantastic place. It felt so unreal driving along that lane with those huge trees lining the street on both sides. It also wasn't easy to get a photo without cars in it. Not that there are many cars on that road. But the few who drive along, usually park on the lane for a couple of minutes to enjoy the scenery. So it wasn't often we had the dark hedges for ourselfes.

Some focus stacking was needed to get a god dof. I left the nearest part out of focus though to get some framing. In postprocessing I first focused on bw conversion, then on contrast and in the end I took out some details by controlled blurring of highlights and some orton effect.

hope you like it!

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my start2finish postprocessing tutorial can be found here: mibreit-photo.com/blog/?p=963

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Something different from me. The last weeks I was exclusively shooting tele. Usually I nearly always present wide angle shots here and I found that in my portfolio there are only a few tele shots - although I always carry around a big lense ;-)

Time to change this. The last weeks I always had the tele on my camera and started looking for other compositions than usual. What would work with a long lense?

The above photo is the result of an evening in Bamberg. 3 Month ago I had already seen this photo in my minds eye as I walked past this gate. It was still midday then but I already saw the potential and thought about a night shot with the masses of people turned into ghostly shapes by the long exposure.

2 weeks ago I brought my camera and setup the shot. There were masses of people and I had to take a couple of long exposures till the movement of the shadows fit into the frame. I positioned the camera so I got a nice diagonal with the cobble stones in the foreground. The lamp above was nicely illuminating the scene. BW was the logical choice here to accentuate the gloomy atmosphere.

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Tags:   bamberg bw black and white schwarzweiß nacht night germany deutschland

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It's not often that I process one of my photos as bw. But for this photo bw is just perfect. It was a rainy, misty evening at lake Gerold, one year ago. The last photo I took that evening and now as I went through the archives I found it again. I already thought about bw when taking this shot. There wasn't much color anyway, just light and shadow.

Even if I usually prefer colors, I like this one a lot!

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Tags:   Gerold Geroldsee Karwendel Alpen Alps schwarzweiß bw lake see dark rain regen fog nebel mist

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The waterfall Devil's Mill in the german Rhön isn't easy to photograph. There's to much stones, branches cluttering the area so that it's hard to find a clean composition. This here's the best I could come up with.

I had to go for bw and some contrast reductions to get a cleaner look here. After all the water should be the focus here.

I used a polarizer and a lee 0.9 ND to get a good exposure.

PS: there are still a lot Seychelle photos in line but I wanted to provide a little change in between :-)

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Tags:   Frühling Germany Landschaft deutschland hessen hiking kalt landscape natur nature rhön wandern Teufelsmühle water wasser wasserfall cascade schwarzweiß black and white

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