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Monochrome Madness – Pirates (free week)

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I’ve missed a few challenges during the last week as we’re away in Cyprus at the moment but, returning tomorrow. So, bored of sunbathing and wanting to get back in the WordPress groove I thought I’d post this for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness Challenge. It’s an image I converted last week, liked the result and saved it on the iPad. 

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Monochrome Madness #28 – Hands

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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

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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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