Monochrome Island

I snapped this from the lakeside at Keswick in the Lake District, shooting in colour and applying a monochrome filter later in Photoshop CS3. I admit to having a little trouble manually adjusting the levels to achieve the look I wanted. In particular, I found it very difficult to push the contrast enough to allow the focal point (the trees on the island in the foreground) to 'pop' out and still allow the mountains in the distance to remain visible. I think in the end I managed it, but I'm hoping with practice to achieve better results (and in a shorter amount of time too!)

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting

Monochrome Graffiti

I took this photograph in an underpass in Kendall in the Lake District. It was a beautiful day, hence the quite nice lighting which I allowed me to push the contrast ever so slightly to achieve a more striking monochrome effect than I had hoped for! The original was shot in colour, but I found that dropping the colour data and adjusting the Hue/Saturation layers as well as the colour channels in Photoshop gave a much fuller, 'arty' image.

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting

Monochrome Flower

A Monochrome version of the close up flower image I uploaded earlier.

Flower photographed at Windermere in the Lake District on 20/08/11.

Snapped using a Canon 1100D D-SLR with an 18-55mm lens and natural lighting.