Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Walk the Dog

GRD II, f4, 1/200, ISO 100, RAW

Today it's again a Ricoh GRD picture and for a first a sepia image. I really like Ronald's sepia pictures and always wanted to use sepia in one of my pictures. Somehow I never chose to use sepia since I see a picture more in color or b&w. Anyway, today I decided to try a sepia conversion from RAW instead of going the usual b&w route. It does work for this image since it gives it a more appropriate warmer feel, I think. During the conversion I also tried to preserve a high tonality and not go for my usual high contrast look.
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6 comments:

  1. Ronald11 June, 2008 07:04

    I have to agree (but in this case I am not the most obbjective commenter)...

    In this case the sepia tones give the picture the warm character that the woman is sending out, relaxing in nature, next to a subtle wrinkle in the water, with society not far (the houses in the back). Thanks for the link to my blog, direct link on flickr to the sepia set is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaldbunnik/sets/72157603729604365/ , in my blog you have to scroll down quite a bit to get down to the 'oude foto's'.

    Thanks to you and remember, you might not know, but every blog you visit is a inspiration, also my daily visit to your blog! (eventhough I do not daily comment)

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  2. Cristian11 June, 2008 07:32

    Thanks for your comment Ronald. You are welcome. I changed the link to point straight to your Flickr set, your blog is linked from my bloglist on the left.

    I agree with you and find it great to visit all blogs on my list daily to get inspiration.

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  3. E.A.11 June, 2008 10:45

    Cris,beautifull image, really like it, it transmints me a feeling of tranquility and intimacy and I like the square format greatly, I believe it suits the scene. If I may ask, did you shoot it square of did you crop later?

    By the way, that dog looks like a "character", is it your dog?

    Erik.

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  4. Cristian11 June, 2008 11:34

    Thanks for your comments Erik.
    I cropped it later but wanted it in square format from the beginning. Just the 1:1 format was not "wide" enough so I cropped is slightly wider than that but tried to stay as close as possible to the square.

    No, the dog is not mine. I don't have a dog or any pets, difficult enough to care about myself ;). The dog was a character though and camer after me once he was out of the water to have a closer look at the guy with the camera :).
    I just spotted them while walking past and took 2 shots. The only 2 shots yesterday and this is the better one since the woman just turned her head slightly.

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  5. Anonymous12 June, 2008 21:00

    I really looks good and I love the shadow details.

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  6. Cristian13 June, 2008 07:36

    Thanks Wouter. This time I stayed away from darkening the shadows and increasing the contrast.

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