Feb 04 2010
Norfolk Island in Black and White
This is one of the last posts solely dedicated to Norfolk Island. Seeing as this island is full of nature beauty, I now wanted to showcase how the history looks through the eye of black and white (with a few Photoshop enhancements, such as Diffused Glow).
This is one of the boats used to transport cargo from the large freight ships, to the shore. It’s obviously been long retired, and looks perfect next to one of the old penal settlement buildings. The black and white effect was achieved in Photoshop with Gradient Map, then had the glow added over the top.
Here is the old Crankhouse. This place has a very strange energy to it. Lots of hard labour would have been done here, so turning the photo to black and white and shooting it in wide angle made it look a bit more eerie.
This last photo was a bit of an experiment. I loved the scenery of this equestrian school, but didn’t think it would turn out particularly well in a photograph. Still, I wanted to capture the scene, so converted it to black and white, then added the glow in Photoshop and it’s make it an interesting shot.
It’s fun playing in black and white. Generally, when I shoot landscapes black and white rarely comes into the decision, but in these cases it seemed to made the original colour image look more lifelike.
