Grey furry plant :)

This year I have rather foolishly decided to do a Flickr 100x challenge group this year. Let's see how that goes!

The topic is 100x monochrome, to include B&W, mono-colour and toned images. B&W is a fascinating genre but needs a different visual mindset. Hopefully, I'll get better and have fun along the way.

This is close-up of a plant in someone else's garden. It's grey and furry. My mastery of botany is as well...

It reminded me of deer antlers, hence the title. We only have little deer in the woods around here, so not much antler but loads of weird noises when the males are rutting!

Also for the Mittwoch Makro group :)

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Wednesday and 100x :)

[Handheld in sunlight.
Developed in Photolab 3, for tonal range and also with fairly hefty Prime noise reduction. There was little colour in the image to start with.
Processed in Affinity Photo with the conversion to monochrome using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, starting with a High Key preset and working from there. Blue toning.
Sharpened back in Affinity using UnSharp Mask, masked to just the in-focus bits so the haloing of the tones and noise wasn't boosted.
Flipped horizontally because it looked better flowing that way. A bit of a crop and a heavy soft dark vignette to finish....]

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...of triangles.

This a picture of the surface of a Seagate external USB drive. They have this marvellous embossed surface that glints at all angles and feels nice to touch.

It looks grainy but the case itself is textured and sparkly this way. The trick was to get the light right...

So how many triangles can you see? I'm probably being cruel... you'll be gone all night if you try to count them I think :)

Each square of four triangles is 7mm across so we are just about two inches in total (0.0277778 fathoms). Yey!

Also for my monochrome series... [3/100]

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays!

[Daylight toplight; tripod; delayed shutter release.
Developed and processed in Affinity Photo to get a balance of black and white.
Inpainting to get rid of dust and marks.
Converted to B&W in Silver Efex Pro 2 with high contrast smooth preset and then some tweaking. Light blue selenium toning.
A bit of sharpening with Unsharp Mask, a little more tweaking of the histogram.
Uncropped.
Dark vignette.]

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Paeony.

This is a monochrome (toned B&W) version of a paeony.

For a full description and a link to the in-camera original see the Sliders Sunday version at www.flickr.com/gp/pixelatedsky/DaPkAp .

This was created and published separately for my 100x monochrome project. I didn't think it was way out enough for the true Sliders Sunday spirit!

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image!

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Cornus Kousa flower.

This variation is based on the Charcoal II preset in Topaz Studio 2, which mainly relies on the Impression filter to simulate painting. Much tweaked from the preset...

I wanted to do a monochrome version for this set, partly to advance my 100x monochrome project. And why not do a painterly one? Or so the justification runs.

See this version for more detail of the initial processing.

The first comment gives a link to the in-camera original I started with.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image and the series :)

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This is a version based on the straight yellow version (Amor Amarillo) converted to high monochrome in Nik Silver Efex with blue toning. Strong white vignette.

This is my favourite of the set not least because it contributes to my 100x monochrome :)

For more information see Layered Light.

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