Lost Aussie on the loose

Simply Black and White

There's something irresistable about Black and White images, where the distraction of color is removed and you are visually drawn by little more than shape, form and detail and often times the resulting image has way more impact than the colored version might have.

Here's the SOOC pic....

....   and yes, it needed some considerable editing to make it into anything remotely appealing...

... but I did not want to spend ages cutting out the "dude" and whacking him on a faux backdrop, so I used a bunch of Channel manipulations to get where I wanted and where the background was obliterated and my soldier man could stand in all his glory.

I did toss up whether or not to put the cleaned up BW version on another background but in the end decided that I liked the high contrast stand alone portrait look....

What do you think?

Shades of Spring

It might not have been the sunniest of days today, but a balmy 68F made cruising around Uptown Charlotte a pleasant adventure.  We'd gone to visit the Light Factory - a contemporary museum of Photography and Film.  I'm not sure what everyone else was doing today but there was no-one in the Museum at all and the attendant had to go and turn on the lights in the galleries just for us.  It was rather like having a private tour and kind of neat.

I hope you had sunny Sunday and if Easter is your thing, then here's hoping that you had a lovely one with significant helpings of chocolate egg!!

The trees are all wearing their spring blooms here abouts... lots of pink and white eye candy....