Tag: chair

Tri-X Test Shot

New York

Kirk Tuck’s Visual Science Lab pointed me to an interesting site the other day, Fuji-x Weekly, who list a series of “recipes” for creating a range of particular film looks (that aren’t already included out-of-the-box in my X-series cameras). Kirk was having fun with the Tri-x 400 recipe and, since that’s the film I shot the most of for a few decades, I thought I’d at least create the recipe and store it to one of the custom banks of my XT-4. This is my first test shot after creating it. Nice tonal range. More later, perhaps…

Chairtonah

Katonah Museum of Art, New York

Emerging from the Bisa Butler: Portraits exhibit into the Katonah Museum of Art garden we encountered the late afternoon sun streaming through these chairs. Clearly a photo opportunity. Click any image to see them enlarged.

The Purity of Chairs

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85th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York
85th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York

I’m not sure which version I prefer. Certainly the idea of purity is better represented by the black and white version. But I really liked the play of color in the reflections on the metal chairs. I boosted the contrast and the vibrance in Lightroom before converting to B&W in Perfect B&W with the Vivid Dream preset, then masked out the B&W on the chairs and reduced the opacity of the effect somewhat, brought back to Lightroom, reduced the contrast a little and raised the clarity and applied a dark vignette. Then I made a copy, converted it to B&W and played with the clarity and contrast a bit for the B&W version.