How do you do your Black and White conversion. Do you emulate a specific Black and White film with a Plug in or do you vary your process from photo to photo? If you emulate different types of films how do you decide which one to use in which specific settings?
Nik filters in Lightroom 5 + custom transformations based on the mood (mine and the and subject matter!).
Beautiful picture. Love the light near cycle.
Yes, it was *that* light that caught my eye. Thank you Preeti.
The image is very different from your specific style I find and it is very much to my liking (which doesn’t man I don’t like your specific style).
Thanks Hilmar. I rarely have the time to pursue this sort of an image. In this case, I was waiting in line for my morning coffee two days ago and saw this scene through the window, across the street. I exited the store with coffee in hand and crossed over. The light was just right, with just the right tonal nuance. Five minutes later, it was gone.
Nostalgia and atmosphere are words which come to mind.
Both words associated with emotions. You’ve done it again Peter. Nice work. :-)!
Thanks for understanding Andrew. It’s funny, but if there isn’t a touch of melancholy in what I photograph, it somehow seems less real to me.
OK, this may actually hurt a bit:
“In Penny Lane there is a” doctor
“showing photographs…”
He, “lives with Beauty… and with Joy
Whose hand is always at” her “lips”
As if to wave good-bye…
This could be the first (and one may hope only) co-mingling of John Lennon and John Keats. In the Lennon, the obvious switch is in professions, but I suppose, if one goes back far enough (by my quite hazy account of history), barbers may have doubled as surgeons, hence “doctors”. In the Keats (Ode on Melancholy) Beauty dies which didn’t suit here, so got elided; and I switched his feminine/masculine pronouns to suit my nefarious purpose. The final line is (I confess) a paraphrase of Keats’s “Bidding adieu”, a result of my twisted sense of sonority.
Is this little alleyway really “Penny Lane”? so very cool! I’ll never hear or think of that song again, without seeing this image…
No, it’s not *the* “Penny Lane” or even *a* “Penny Lane” 🙂 … but the song was on my mind when I photographed the scene.
Yes, barbers were blood-letters, surgeons, tooth extractors… jack-of-all-pain-inflicters.
Prosophos 
How do you do your Black and White conversion. Do you emulate a specific Black and White film with a Plug in or do you vary your process from photo to photo? If you emulate different types of films how do you decide which one to use in which specific settings?
Nik filters in Lightroom 5 + custom transformations based on the mood (mine and the and subject matter!).
Beautiful picture. Love the light near cycle.
Yes, it was *that* light that caught my eye. Thank you Preeti.
The image is very different from your specific style I find and it is very much to my liking (which doesn’t man I don’t like your specific style).
Thanks Hilmar. I rarely have the time to pursue this sort of an image. In this case, I was waiting in line for my morning coffee two days ago and saw this scene through the window, across the street. I exited the store with coffee in hand and crossed over. The light was just right, with just the right tonal nuance. Five minutes later, it was gone.
Nostalgia and atmosphere are words which come to mind.
Both words associated with emotions. You’ve done it again Peter. Nice work. :-)!
Thanks for understanding Andrew. It’s funny, but if there isn’t a touch of melancholy in what I photograph, it somehow seems less real to me.
OK, this may actually hurt a bit:
“In Penny Lane there is a” doctor
“showing photographs…”
He, “lives with Beauty… and with Joy
Whose hand is always at” her “lips”
As if to wave good-bye…
This could be the first (and one may hope only) co-mingling of John Lennon and John Keats. In the Lennon, the obvious switch is in professions, but I suppose, if one goes back far enough (by my quite hazy account of history), barbers may have doubled as surgeons, hence “doctors”. In the Keats (Ode on Melancholy) Beauty dies which didn’t suit here, so got elided; and I switched his feminine/masculine pronouns to suit my nefarious purpose. The final line is (I confess) a paraphrase of Keats’s “Bidding adieu”, a result of my twisted sense of sonority.
Is this little alleyway really “Penny Lane”? so very cool! I’ll never hear or think of that song again, without seeing this image…
No, it’s not *the* “Penny Lane” or even *a* “Penny Lane” 🙂 … but the song was on my mind when I photographed the scene.
Yes, barbers were blood-letters, surgeons, tooth extractors… jack-of-all-pain-inflicters.