"SEPIA STUD"
I stopped at the horse farm around the corner from my house today because it's a favorite place of mine to visit & shoot. Most of the horses know me very well from visiting there for the last 10 years. It's loaded with male studs and is a very peaceful place for me to gather my thoughts and enjoy the wild life. No matter where I am on the farm property fence when they hear the camera clicking they all come running over to me (I've been know to bear gifts -'bribes' of apple slices or sugar cubes LOL)
I've photographed this guy for the last 3 years or so (I call him 'Big Brown') and this time I managed to get a nice side view of him just a few feet away. The original image was great in color but I wanted to do something special so I did a creative sepia conversion and hoped for good results, I hope you all like it.
PS: To prove that even professionals make mistakes DAILY I just wanted to let you know that I screwed up this entire shoot, I shot all my images at ISO 1000 during a Blazing Sun lit day because I forgot to change my setting from last nights work LOL I should have realized when it was giving me a SS of 1/1600 - 1/2000 every image in AP mode that something was wrong but I didn't realize it till I started looking at the images in Nikon ViewerNX after transfering to the PC ;) Not a huge mistake because I was in AP but had I been in SP it would have provided a boat load of unnessesary noise and a lot of work to remove it from each image.
Image Specs:
Lens: Nikkor 18-200mm @ 200mm
EX: 1/1600
AP: f/5.6
ISO: 1000 (yes 1000 - opps)
WB: Auto
"WORK FLOW"
Image was taken through several steps of work flow starting off in CaptureNX for some minor selective area noise reduction. Then into CS3 for my normal Sharpening routine and then into NIK 'SILVER EFX PRO' (*Fantastice B&W Plug-In set)for the B&W/SEPIA conversion & tweaks. I simulated 'ILFORD DELTA 100 PRO film and used a slight green filter to bring out the darker areas a bit more, then saved full size/full resolution as shot - so I can order a Large High Res Print for myself, this is going to hang on my studio wall!
The ORIGINAL IMAGE can be SEEN BY CLICKING HERE
~Bill~
"SEPIA STUD"
I stopped at the horse farm around the corner from my house today because it's a favorite place of mine to visit & shoot. Most of the horses know me very well from visiting there for the last 10 years. It's loaded with male studs and is a very peaceful place for me to gather my thoughts and enjoy the wild life. No matter where I am on the farm property fence when they hear the camera clicking they all come running over to me (I've been know to bear gifts -'bribes' of apple slices or sugar cubes LOL)
I've photographed this guy for the last 3 years or so (I call him 'Big Brown') and this time I managed to get a nice side view of him just a few feet away. The original image was great in color but I wanted to do something special so I did a creative sepia conversion and hoped for good results, I hope you all like it.
PS: To prove that even professionals make mistakes DAILY I just wanted to let you know that I screwed up this entire shoot, I shot all my images at ISO 1000 during a Blazing Sun lit day because I forgot to change my setting from last nights work LOL I should have realized when it was giving me a SS of 1/1600 - 1/2000 every image in AP mode that something was wrong but I didn't realize it till I started looking at the images in Nikon ViewerNX after transfering to the PC ;) Not a huge mistake because I was in AP but had I been in SP it would have provided a boat load of unnessesary noise and a lot of work to remove it from each image.
Image Specs:
Lens: Nikkor 18-200mm @ 200mm
EX: 1/1600
AP: f/5.6
ISO: 1000 (yes 1000 - opps)
WB: Auto
"WORK FLOW"
Image was taken through several steps of work flow starting off in CaptureNX for some minor selective area noise reduction. Then into CS3 for my normal Sharpening routine and then into NIK 'SILVER EFX PRO' (*Fantastice B&W Plug-In set)for the B&W/SEPIA conversion & tweaks. I simulated 'ILFORD DELTA 100 PRO film and used a slight green filter to bring out the darker areas a bit more, then saved full size/full resolution as shot - so I can order a Large High Res Print for myself, this is going to hang on my studio wall!
The ORIGINAL IMAGE can be SEEN BY CLICKING HERE
~Bill~
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