B&W Black & White, monotone and sepia

Lawrence A. said:

Woody112704 said:

A couple more. Been doing a bunch of processing on shots I took about a month ago. If you have any thoughts or suggestions I would appreciate it.

This is probably one of my favorite shots.

My suggestion would be to keep doing whatever it is you're doing. Very nice work.

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Thanks, I'm just starting to get a good feel for my photography and doing the January PAD is making me realize how far I have come in a relatively short time. But I also know that there is more to learn and I need to get out and shoot more often.

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Dewi Sant said:

I think i prefer the warmer toned one at the bottom, although the blue does give a colder ambience to what is a wintery scene. Many years ago in another life when I did my own colour and B/W processing and printing in a proper darkroom (happy days) I used to print onto achival fibre paper and selenium tone them as opposed to sepia, which gave a similar tone to the last shot. Very subtle but very nice. Nice shots those as well.

I'm actually hankering after making a return to film and chemical photography just to do monotones, I've never got to love digital black and whitle like I did film, there's just something missing with it for me. In fact I've been scouring e.bay for a nice retro film camera, I used to have an old Franka rangefinder - like this: A Field-day with the Frankarette but I can't find it anywhere. Not sure that Mrs Dewi would appreciate the house stinking of chemicals again though - so maybe she has something to do with it's disappearance.

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