Monochrome Madness – Street Photography

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Steve Hyde

This guy was one of a group of Hip-Hop Street Dancers we saw performing near Chelsea Park, NYC a few years ago.

It’s non theme this week for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness so I thought I’d post a few street shots. I’m not sure if there’s a specific definition for what is and what isn’t ‘Street Photography’. I just wander around snapping anything that catches my eye. So here are a few images for this weeks challenge.

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Monochrome Madness #28 – Hands

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Steve Hyde

This weeks theme is from the blog Stupidity Hole and he wants us to submit pictures of HANDS. So here are a few pics from me. I’ve processed them with an old version of Silver Efex which I’ve hardly ever used. I’ll be spending some time exploring it now as I like the results I’ve been able to achieve with it.

A potter busy working in his workshop. We stumbled across him on a holiday in Italy. the guy was happy for me to take a few snaps when I asked. It was good for business, we left with some pottery.

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Monochrome Madness

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Steve Hyde

Fresh sourdough bread, given to us by our neighbour (she’s a superb and generous baker). I think it works well as a BW conversion. I used the Gradient Map process for this image, outlined below.

Last weekend I submitted a few images for the weekly Lens-Artist Challenge, Colour vs Black and White. I rarely convert my images to BW as I’m mostly shooting for stock. I leave it to others to convert my images if they want a BW version. They can’t convert it the other way.

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