Photography and the Art of Seeing

  So I was up early this morning, for one reason or another, and I decided to hunt through a randomly chosen folder from way back in time, 2007 to be exact, and I came across some images taken on a trip up to Tobermory. This particular image is a combination of 3 hand held vertical shots to test out Photoshop's Photomerge feature. Using this technique allowed me to create a larger image that I cropped square. As I was going through all of this I started to think that it might look good in black & white. Now, I know there are as many ways to convert a colour image into greyscale as there are photographers out there, well almost, converting images. This is not the topic of this post but will be in a later post. I am also thinking of toning this black & white print digitally in a somewhat similar fashion that Ansel Adams did in the wet darkroom. Ansel Adams put his gallery prints through a selenium toning bath process as a final touch. If you are seriously interested in learn...