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B&W Squared

Postby Geoff M on Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:23 pm

Some images of London Architecture I have revisited to practice processing to B&W in LR5.

Square crop was never the intent with these images when taking them so composition may not be the strongest element.

Would be pleased to hear your views on the PP.

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Re: B&W Squared

Postby Matt. K on Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:28 pm

Great PP. Really brings out the drama in these shots and takes them to a higher level. Nice work.
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B&W Squared

Postby chrisk on Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:15 am

Great atmosphere mate. Excellent.


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Re: B&W Squared

Postby PiroStitch on Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:12 am

Great atmosphere and mood with the treatment.

The third one rings the strongest for me. At first I felt the white roof top was a bit of a distraction but stepping back, it works as a nice line towards the Shard.
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby ozimax on Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:16 pm

All are excellent. I really like this part of London town and you've shown these well.
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby gstark on Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:41 am

They've said it all. Great stuff.
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby zafra52 on Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:19 pm

Great selection and good of B&W.
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:11 pm

Geoff - I really like it on the first two but I'm not so sure with the third (but that could be the composition as well)
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby Geoff M on Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:28 pm

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

None of these shots were taken with a square crop in mind so composition may not be the strongest element. I am quite happy with the PP for which I have created a preset. The preset is used as a starting point, all of these images have also had a few minor tweaks thereafter.
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby Matt. K on Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:46 pm

Geoff
I guess you probably know that you can set the Fuji X-Pro to shoot square format? It takes a little getting used to but can be challenging to shoot in the 'classical' mode. :up:
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Re: B&W Squared

Postby Geoff M on Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:29 pm

Matt. K wrote:Geoff
I guess you probably know that you can set the Fuji X-Pro to shoot square format? It takes a little getting used to but can be challenging to shoot in the 'classical' mode. :up:


Yes indeed, I was aware but have only ever shot in the 'standard' 3:2 aspect ratio with both the XE1 and XP1. If I was to use another aspect ratio option, do you know if that selected ratio is applied to the RAW files or just JPEG?
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