riderr1150gsadv
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Looks like y'all had a good old time with lots of food and a big fire... You even snuck in a B&W photo...
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Vermont's Green Mountain Rally is BACK!
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Looks like y'all had a good old time with lots of food and a big fire... You even snuck in a B&W photo...
adamchandler
YouTube Mechanic
Looks like y'all had a good old time with lots of food and a big fire... You even snuck in a B&W photo...
I exercise extreme caution with black & white. it can be overdone
slowpokepete
Member
Great pics...wish I had come for this...
Maybe next year!
SPP
Maybe next year!
SPP
riderr1150gsadv
Well-known member
Actually B&W forces you to actually look at the subject matter...
Check out this site. https://clydebutcher.com
Clyde is known as the Ansel Adams of the Everglades and I have been to his studio a number of times. Simply stunning is almost not enough...
adamchandler
YouTube Mechanic
I can't argue with objectivity
I've seen new photographers go too much into black & white just like the sideways shot newbie mistake. It's hard to explain but this is photographers who don't shoot portrait or landscape, they do some weird 45 degree in the middle thing to get more crap in the photo. I see it with new photographers.This guy is fairly new to the hobby - https://om.co/photos/ and has moved exclusively to black & white. I think he can be saved
I really can't disagree that B&W does that to people but I also know some people who have relied on it as a crutch. This is 100% opinion on my part though.
I do occasionally also screw around with saturation though like in this photo:
I find de-saturating to be more fun than B&W.
riderr1150gsadv
Well-known member
I agree that things can be overdone, and not just in photography..
It is cool to play around with colors and lighting. Developing film has gone the way of the Dodo for the most part, but I do miss the darkroom days when you could really make or break an image on paper. With digital it is now a matter of playing with the software settings and that can be endless fun too..
It is cool to play around with colors and lighting. Developing film has gone the way of the Dodo for the most part, but I do miss the darkroom days when you could really make or break an image on paper. With digital it is now a matter of playing with the software settings and that can be endless fun too..
adamchandler
YouTube Mechanic
I agree that things can be overdone, and not just in photography..
It is cool to play around with colors and lighting. Developing film has gone the way of the Dodo for the most part, but I do miss the darkroom days when you could really make or break an image on paper. With digital it is now a matter of playing with the software settings and that can be endless fun too..
It's silly for sure that Black & White is just a fake button on a screen that you tap with your finger.
so many dark room techniques relegated to clicks.mtraphagen
Member
My digital Leica Monochrom *only* shoots in black and white. Not a fake button...you just have to see things differently.
I like your photographs -- thanks for sharing them. And the b&w image was good use of it.
I like your photographs -- thanks for sharing them. And the b&w image was good use of it.
adamchandler
YouTube Mechanic
Thanks! that Monochrom you have is a pretty good piece of kit! Any links to your galleries?
mtraphagen
Member
It was my work -- I don't really have organized galleries, although do have a Photoshelter account. The photos are an odd assortment, generally uploaded for one specific purpose or another, but they generally don't relate to each other or to much of anything at a glance.
Some photos are a number of years old, some are more recent. I haven't updated it at all since the pandemic began.
https://www.mitchtraphagen.com
And, of course, this post is very far off-topic...my apologies for that. Perhaps next year my wife and I could make a Vermont rally!
Some photos are a number of years old, some are more recent. I haven't updated it at all since the pandemic began.
https://www.mitchtraphagen.com
And, of course, this post is very far off-topic...my apologies for that. Perhaps next year my wife and I could make a Vermont rally!
adamchandler
YouTube Mechanic
riderr1150gsadv
Well-known member
Great photo's specially from Florida..
I am biased a bit....
Ft. Jefferson is an amazing place and see you took quite a few photos there.... Thanks for the link!kyylieeeeee
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Adam, thanks for hosting such a fun event. It was my first BMW rally and had a great time. Looking through your photos was fun Hoping that when you get to your drone photos, you have one of my husband falling off his chair while attempting to wave at the drone 
Cheers and hope to see it again next year!
Hoping that when you get to your drone photos, you have one of my husband falling off his chair while attempting to wave at the drone Cheers and hope to see it again next year!
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