Dead West Pier

[Nick De Marco]

Hi guys,
I just finished putting together a black & white gallery of shots taken around Brighton's old west pier, called Dead West Pier. I took the photos aver a weekend in Brighton in August, experimenting with black & white conversions from digital files from my Leica M8 (with 21mm Elmarit), which worked well and look very dramatic in the early and late day light I shot in, and on film medium format using two new rangefinder MFs (Mamiya 7 and Plaubel Makina 67). Please take a look at the gallery and leave me any if you like it.

Dead West Pier Photo Gallery by Nick De Marco at pbase.com

Thanks

Nick

Here is a taster:

 

[gavinlg]

wow - great conversions and compositions! thanks - I enjoyed that.

 

[oftheherd]

Terrific photos! Hard to pick a favorite. Thanks for sharing.

 

[icebear]

Obviously difficult to keep away from this interesting structure😉. I actually like your teaser "dramatic light" the best. I assume you got your feet wet with the 21mm, you must have been close. Nice shots. Congrats.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Hell yeah!!!

 

[POINT OF VIEW]

I don't like B/W

I don't like B/W

I don’t even like B/W but your work encourages me to rethink my point of view. Good job. Bill

 

[Steve Cook]

West Pier

West Pier

Love the first one, great angle.

Here's a few of mine taken with my M8

Steve Cook
http://www.seekerphotography.com

 

[kxl]

Nick - nice work.

Care to share your B&W conversion recipe? 🙂

 

[ChrisN]

Are you happy with the B&W conversions from digital, compared with the images shot on film? They are quite different in character.

 

[MartinP]

Not living in the UK anymore - are we talking about Brighton in Sussex ??? So it burnt down ?? Sh%$

Nice pics though.

 

[Steve Cook]

Yeah Martin, it burnt down a few years ago - there's still some people that think they can restore it, but they're kidding themselves really (should have done it before the fire). Also, Weston Super Mare's pier burnt down this year (after a restoration!).

 

[sam_m]

Great set of pictures, would love to know what you're doing to the m8 files.

 

[ali_baba]

im curious to see your conversion strategy, but things look great!

 

[Silva Lining]

very nice, I particularly like the first shot. Her's a couple I shot with a Fuji GS690II on TriX
Duotone

This ones hand-coloured