Hypericum.

What subjects make the best monochrome photographs?

Well,’ I’ve no idea, really. But I thought I would set myself the 100x Monochrome and tinted challenge to explore a bit.

So this is one again. I think I prefer the colour if I’m to be honest, especially over-cooked in the developing like this one was in preparation for the monochrome conversion.

Although I don’t normally like posting both I think I will today (because I like the colour version, and it’s my photostream lol). I’d be interested to hear what you think.

Handheld in daylight and not a bad result in spite of that (I did take quite a few though ;) ).

Also, the whole editing across three programs bar the saving was in about twenty minutes, so manages to squeak into the 20-minute edit occasional challenge I’ve set myself (which is proving a tad... er... challenging lol)...

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Thursday :)

[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Capture One with selective colour attention to the orange, green and greeny yellows to strengthen the colour contrast so I could use a colour filter in the monochrome conversion.
Sharpened in Affinity; cropped to 16:9; tidied up with inpainting (there was an insect - aha!).
Sharpening was difficult with a mixture of tweaked USM and Clarity - High Pass failed for this one (too much haloing).]

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON Z 6
Exposure:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture:	f/8.0
ISO Speed:	640
Focal Length:	105 mm
Lens:	Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED