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Tower hotel 31/50: Main entrance

After long time I installed LightZone for Linux software again on my laptop, to see if it could give me some new perspectives on this Tower hotel series of mine. It is far less advantageous than Nik Collection Silver Efex Pro, but as a Ubuntu Linux user (at my home laptop), I have to get along with what works on Linux.

Here I have run filter called 'Alien Infrared', with default settings, and it alone gives some new ways to alter black and white images.

And lesson learned this weekend. Do not use camera presets to record images directly on black and white! Shoot always in colors to be able to adjust color filters afterwards on photo editor.

UPDATE: After getting some feedback elsewhere, I must say the ideal would be to shoot "JPEG+RAW (with black and white JPEG scene preset)", if the camera, computer's processing power, and memory space available makes it possible ;-)

Some further reading: erickimphotography.com/blog/2016/10/25/how-to-shoot-black-and-white-street-photography
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12 comments

Gisela Plewe said:

Ich finde das Ergebnis sehr stimmungsvoll und technisch detailreich. Was wirkt hier bedrohlicher, der alte Gebäudeteil, der überragende Neubau, der Himmel? Eine Farbversion kann das m.E. nicht bringen.
PS: Ich würde es auch nie der Kamera überlassen, Bilder in s/w aufzunehmen. Damit würde ich mir eigene Interpretationsmöglichkeiten beschneiden!
6 years ago ( translate )

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Gisela Plewe:

So true, Gisela! I tested the 'Black and White Scene' mode on my Canon, for Saturday Self Challenge, and it was alright for that one shot. But never again!
6 years ago

Ulrich John said:

Great in b/w ! A totally other character of picture as in color ! A little bit mysterious and very nice !
6 years ago

Diane Putnam said:

Really? That's the entrance? So, it was originally an old hotel. I've used the B&W setting in my camera only once. You're so right about the doing it later in editing!
6 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Diane Putnam:

The hotel is actually built "around" (inside and behind) of an old railway roundhouse. The reception is behind that old tower, and conference space is built inside the the rooms where locomotives were serviced and stored. I may take an overall shot some day to show the surroundings.
6 years ago

Annaig56 said:

quel contraste dans ces batiments,
6 years ago ( translate )

Boarischa Krautmo said:

very well done, good shot!
6 years ago

Sylvain Wiart said:

An advice full of wisdom !
6 years ago

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Sylvain Wiart:

Well, after getting some feedback elsewhere, I must say the ideal would be to shoot "JPEG+RAW (with black and white JPEG scene preset)", if the camera, computer's processing power, and memory space available makes it possible ;-)
6 years ago

Cheryl Kelly (cher12… said:

Nicely done! Congrats on explore. Have a nice week ahead.
6 years ago ( translate )

Marta Wojtkowska said:

Excellent!
6 years ago ( translate )

Sami Serola (inactiv… replied to Marta Wojtkowska:

Thank you, Marta.
6 years ago ( translate )