I used to do quite a lot of Black and White photography when I had an old 35mm SLR Camera, most of the film loaded was B&W. When I was in the newsagents recently they had a Black & White one of a series of Photography Focus Guides. It looked quite interesting so I bought it. On the cover it a CD with various videos and filters on it. Then, earlier this week, Steve put a couple of amazing B&W photographs up on Pencil Dreams, and my interest was really piqued.
Fireworks was fired up yesterday morning, and I started looking at some of the effects available with the filters from the cover-disk. One of them produced the photograph of Godmanchester Church below. I really like this negative effect. It brings back so many memories of when I was a child exploring my parents suitcase full of old photographs. I always enjoyed holding the strips of negatives up to the light, to see things in a very different way. And, yet, it’s an artform that I’ve never explored until now. There’s something about it, that keeps drawing my eye to it, again and again.
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The clouds and sky look amazing like this!
I imagine if you were in the middle of the moors, and looked up to see a sky like that, you wouldn’t be any too happy.
I think it’s the sky that keeps drawing my eye to this photo, it does look quite stunning. I’m tempted to try cutting it out and pasting it into the original colour photograph; but I’m not sure I’d have the patience to work around the leaves.
i really love this picture, its amazing!
Thank you Sam.