Glasgow Snapshots

[Nick De Marco]

Whilst recently in Glasgow for a conference, I stole a few hours around my hotel with my Leica M...

Results and commentary on my blog: http://rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.de/2014/04/glasgow-snapshots.html

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Glasgow snapshots by nickdemarco, on Flickr

Glasgow snapshots by nickdemarco, on Flickr

Glasgow snapshots by nickdemarco, on Flickr

Glasgow snapshots by nickdemarco, on Flickr

Nick

 

[Bingley]

Wow, Nick! Nice photos here and over on your blog post; you really use a 28mm lens well! Thanks for posting the shots and the link.

 

[gb hill]

I really enjoyed the shots on your blog Nick. Bookmarked into my fav's. & will visit often.

 

[Nick De Marco]

Thanks for the kind comments

 

[van_d]

Very nice shots. Digital B&W seems a lot trickier to produce aesthetically-pleasing results, but you manage just fine! What kind of software do you use, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Nick De Marco]

Thanks Van
My normal process, and the ones used here, is to first convert into black and white in Lightroom 5, manually, to get the right balance (rather than using a pre-set). Then I add a filter from Alien Skin that copies the look (on these anyway) of Kodak Tri-X 400 (on others I sometimes use Ilford or Fuji 100 for finer grain less reportage types) - usually about 50-80%. I find it is important to add the filter so digital black and white does not look so clean. I rarely, on the other hand, add film look filters to colour, but sometimes it is nice too. The cleaner look in colour isn't as displeasing to me as black and whir, where the eye almost expects some grain to add reality