I had to call a friend to help me set up to scan slides. It was literally a matter of not having something plugged it. No, I don’t mind admitting “Doh!” moments. Learning is filled with them, embarrassment shouldn’t prevent sharing of knowledge.
Anyway, the scanner works for color transparencies now and I have a mother butt load of them in the closet. Thousands upon thousands. At least half of them are Kodachrome.
So I began with a couple on hand and started playing. One I did this morning I have worked up into two versions. Here’s the first.
Yes, I said and you read correctly that this is from a COLOR transparency. But it was shot late in the day and was pretty monochromatic, all browns and yellows and hints of red. I thought it would make a better black & white image and it is pretty dramatic. (I just desaturated it in Photoshop, played with the contrast, etc.)
But I thought it had a bit more potential. A photographer I used to admire was Pete Turner, who developed a style of intensely monochromatic images often with one variant color. I always liked the idea, but the best I could do from what I worked with (unless I lucked into a shot that was basically all one color) was to hand tint black & white images.
Well, Photoshop allows me to indulge it and do it a bit better. Hence—
This is now my preferred version. I isolated the two brightly color areas, oversaturated them, and then drew down the saturation over all. I didn’t quite manage it right to get a completely black & white overall image, but this has some charm I quite like.
Anyway, both images will appear in my Zenfolio portfolio. A fun morning’s work.
Enjoy the weekend.
