Moody black and whites from Mull & Iona

wunkley · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:37

Here's a few from my recent trip to the Scottish Islands. The weather was mostly terrible, hence the black and white...

Went to see the sea eagles. Saw a sea gul instead

Enjoy. C&C welcome...

thelonecrouton · 11 Jul 2006 at 16:44

I love the expression on that seagull's face...

wunkley · 11 Jul 2006 at 17:35

thelonecrouton said:
I love the expression on that seagull's face...

He was being lured in by Walkers cheese and onion crisps on the top of a sea ferry at the time, so i think we can let him off for his expression

neverender · 11 Jul 2006 at 17:35

Love the boats in the 2nd shot. Excellent use of B+W. Shame the sky's so drab, but thats hardly your fault.

reddeathdrinker · 11 Jul 2006 at 17:38

Love the second picture - good composition, and an angry-looking sky....

iGiDK · 11 Jul 2006 at 17:46

really like 2 & 4, the B&W really adds a lot to the shots

as us scots would say, the weather looks "dreich"

wunkley · 11 Jul 2006 at 18:17

Cheers people. Actually the colours in the boats pic are amazing, but I've done this one B&W.

whitecrook · 11 Jul 2006 at 20:28

The boats pic does look pretty awesome

nero120 · 12 Jul 2006 at 00:18

Great pics - I love the gull one, just a shame you clipped his wing! By the way, cant you tell us what technique you used to b&w these, I think you got a great effect.

wunkley · 12 Jul 2006 at 12:04

nero120 said:
Great pics - I love the gull one, just a shame you clipped his wing! By the way, cant you tell us what technique you used to b&w these, I think you got a great effect.

I know

, he was coming in so close and I had the zoom lens on so the clippage was unfortunate.

Technique for the black and whites - the gull pic has had very little done to it, just changed to black and white using the channel mix method in CS2. The other 3 have been HDR'd first of all as the weather was so dull, then converted to black and white using channel mixing, then basic curve stuff to boost contrast.
They print really well too (have just got an Epson r2400 which is great for B&W) - look much smoother than they do on screen.

Gamefreak501 · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:09

Shots number 1 and 2 are fantastic

mrk · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:18

I think we have a new O RLY seagul

Dup · 12 Jul 2006 at 23:04

I have an awesome colour print of those boats from a photo I took back in 2004. Lost the original in a HDD crash I think :mad:

Nice work with the B&W, I love Scotland. Never been abroad, but beach holidays aren't my thing unless I'm there to let the dogs have a run and a paddle (or if you're my labrador, a swim out to sea to fetch surfers).

wunkley · 13 Jul 2006 at 10:19

Cheers for the nice comments folks. Here's one of the boats in colour too. Was such an obvious photo moment driving past I almost went off the road...

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I think we have a new O RLY seagul

- eh? I don't get it :confused:

nero120 · 13 Jul 2006 at 10:36

wunkley said:
eh? I don't get it

You're better off this way, trust me!

Also congrats on managing to avoid GD for this long!

DannyDan · 13 Jul 2006 at 10:57

nero120 said:
You're better off this way, trust me!