Winters snap

Great tone and a fine view, Herb !

Thanks Ulrich, good that you share with me here a blast from the past maybe. Not quite the mountains of Bayern but still something to be admired perhaps.

Viele Grüße, Herbert

Great!

Another like from you my friend. I am yet waiting to fail you!

Cheers, Herb

...wonderful grey tones and fine compo

Good that you liked this old-touch photo Lutz.

Cheers, Herb

sehr schöner Bildaufbau, ein dunkle und eine helle Seite machen es sehr spannend

Light counts for so much in Landscapes my friend. Glad you enjoyed this.

Regards, Herb

Hi Herb

I really like this. It works so well in B&W.

Best Wishes, and a good weekend
Peter

Hi Peter. As I was browsing this book, I said to myself, these brown landscapes look every bit as good as today's coloured ones do. Most of those were portrait size though. Glad that you approved.

Cheers, Herb

Dang it !...... Herb !.. I was just thinking how much your scene reminds me of the mountains of Bayern... anyway... not to worry... this is a most pleasing effect with a difference.
Cheers from Dave.....

IHi Dave, I might look for one of my mountain scenes and convert it to sepia to see how it goes. When I first joint Flickr, the first hundred or so photos were all in monochrome -many toned like this but they never got much feedback. Anyway, great that yu liked this too.

Cheers, Herb

Gorgeous, moody, and lovely picture. It looks so old! Sepia is such a wonderful way to evoke age in a current image. I love to play with b/w filters to see how an image looks with the various tints. It's surprising how different the mood becomes with one tint compared to another.

If you haven't tried Topaz Lab's B/W Effects, you should take a look...really fun and surprising suite of choices to play with and tweak to your heart's content. :)

Hi Janet and many thanks for enjoying this photo of mine with me here. My book of Germany in 1925 which shows very many from the Alpine area's demonstrates to me how effective sepia toning can be. Indeed, when I printed my own large exhibition photographs, I did quite a few in Sepia, usually to do with the actual paper though. I am happy how this turned out and indeed, I used 'Silver Efex Pro' to help me. I know Topaz Labs have some great effects too. Normally though, I just converted to monochrome and then toned them. I try not to add too many effects though, as to not detract from the real photo taken. That being said, I have dabbled with some photos in the past to make them more a 'work-of-art' rather than the pure photo that they started of as. As a very amateur water-colour painter, that comes natural to me too.

Have a great week, Herb

It looks dramatically atmospheric Herb...almost ominous!
I really do like it...

It was a very cold day, but if I tell you the sky was blue with puffy clouds here then you can see the effect is total:) Glad you liked it.

Cheers, Herb

I love those old books Herb and this looks magnificent in sepia! I remember so well watching my father print his photos on a Saturday evening in the blacked out dining room! He would have loved the digital age though.
Cheers, Rosa.

Thanks for that Rosa. I used to do my developing and printing with a big board over the bath in our rather small bathroom. As the window was small too,it was easily blacked out and of course lit up in red. Fortunately the other usual bathroom facility was in another adjacent room :) When I came out with a fine wet print it was the most joyous thing. (my new baby perhaps :~) ) As you say the digital age is another thing altogether. And phones..

Cheers, Herb

A beautiful winters scene Herb.............well composed and taken. The sepia tones are quite lovely and very evocative. A great idea and very cleverly done!

Got to keep churning my landscapes out in one way or another Keith. Maybe i shall revert to creating frames for these again someday as I used to do with so many of my Panoramio shots. But... great that you enjoyed the toned effect and it seemed to suit this subject too.

Cheers, Herb

Excellent Herb I process I enjoy doing myself, black and white does seem to bring something different out in shots like this. Beautifully converted

Thanks Richard. I have just been into your gallery and seen your latest batch of similar mono landscapes too. Great work from you. There is something slightly more artistic about these monos, perhaps letting our imaginations filling in the missing colours. I used to do many (as said above) but not so many now as it seems that they have generally gone out of fashion.

Cheers, Herb

Beautifully composed with the tree framing the photo on the left and the shoreline curving on the right. Your bw conversion and the toning are well done! The photo has a timeless quality with no modern stuff intruding.

Good to have your approval on this Gudrun. You already know that I take care of my framing etc. The toning too, is a thing that I have been doing periodically for some years now with some of my photos. I am glad that it has conveyed the desired quality of timeless.

Best Wishes, Herb

Le noir et blanc donne une sensation dramatique *********

Good that you think so ColRam. My thanks and appreciation for your call here.

Regards, Herb

Tremendous image to start with and wonderful treatment Herb,

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Always good to know that I don't have to travel farm to get some winners. Very pleased you liked it.

Cheers, Herb

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