Two treatments of a photo of the Berlin Olympic Stadium
As I've previously talked about, my working MacBook Pro suffered a casualty: the accelerated video card failed. The solution was to unload all of the accelerate video drivers, which turns it in to a monochrome laptop. Not black & white, but a gray scale laptop. And I'm fine with that. I turned it on earlier this week and tis image came up - in gray scale.
This is the Berlin Olympic Stadium where, in 1934, Jesse Owens, a black man, kicked the cream of Germany butt. Now here's the nasty bit - he was treated better by Hitler than by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hitler liked him because it reinforced his theory of natural selection that Africans were better suited to their environment and it was OK for Owens to beat the Germans at running, it didn't diminish his belief that the Germans were still the master race.
But that's a side story, nothing to do with the photo.
When I started up the damaged laptop and saw what image was the random laptop's wallpaper, my brain said 'that photo looks kinda neat in black & white!' so this morning I took some time to do a little Photoshopping to see what it looks like in B&W, and the results are under the cuts.
As always, clicken to embiggen.
Unfortunately the original was from a JPEG, not a RAW. I don't know why I didn't have a RAW of the original. I shot it with my Lumix and didn't have as much experience with it as I would've liked, and it was sometimes kind of odd as to when it would and would not produce a RAW.
This first image is a Photoshop B&W adjustment layer with no fiddling with the sliders. I didn't do anything else with the image, just a straight conversion.
This image is a DxO Filmpack conversion to one of my favorite black & white processes, TriX 400. I really like the the grain effect that the TriX process adds, I equally dislike the lack of grain the straight B&W conversion that Photoshop does. There are, of course, grain effects that can be added. I have this thing against hyper-realism - only sometimes - and when it comes to B&W, I like grain to soften things up. This is perhaps my favorite recent example of a photo that I shot on film that exhibits what I'm talking about.
Unfortunately I didn't have as much time or access around the stadium as I would've liked as they were setting up for some sort of festival. I really like the shot of the stadium to the left and the iconic pillars with the Olympic rings, I just wish I could have gotten a similar shot from within the gate perimeter.
Another trivia point - those are not the original pillars. In the closing days of the war, the pillars were used as furnaces to burn documents and were structurally weakened, they had to be torn down and rebuilt.
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This is the Berlin Olympic Stadium where, in 1934, Jesse Owens, a black man, kicked the cream of Germany butt. Now here's the nasty bit - he was treated better by Hitler than by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hitler liked him because it reinforced his theory of natural selection that Africans were better suited to their environment and it was OK for Owens to beat the Germans at running, it didn't diminish his belief that the Germans were still the master race.
But that's a side story, nothing to do with the photo.
When I started up the damaged laptop and saw what image was the random laptop's wallpaper, my brain said 'that photo looks kinda neat in black & white!' so this morning I took some time to do a little Photoshopping to see what it looks like in B&W, and the results are under the cuts.
As always, clicken to embiggen.
Unfortunately the original was from a JPEG, not a RAW. I don't know why I didn't have a RAW of the original. I shot it with my Lumix and didn't have as much experience with it as I would've liked, and it was sometimes kind of odd as to when it would and would not produce a RAW.
This first image is a Photoshop B&W adjustment layer with no fiddling with the sliders. I didn't do anything else with the image, just a straight conversion.
This image is a DxO Filmpack conversion to one of my favorite black & white processes, TriX 400. I really like the the grain effect that the TriX process adds, I equally dislike the lack of grain the straight B&W conversion that Photoshop does. There are, of course, grain effects that can be added. I have this thing against hyper-realism - only sometimes - and when it comes to B&W, I like grain to soften things up. This is perhaps my favorite recent example of a photo that I shot on film that exhibits what I'm talking about.
Unfortunately I didn't have as much time or access around the stadium as I would've liked as they were setting up for some sort of festival. I really like the shot of the stadium to the left and the iconic pillars with the Olympic rings, I just wish I could have gotten a similar shot from within the gate perimeter.
Another trivia point - those are not the original pillars. In the closing days of the war, the pillars were used as furnaces to burn documents and were structurally weakened, they had to be torn down and rebuilt.
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