When the weather outside is frightful, it’s hard to tell the difference between black and white or colour
It’s been mostly a wet and foggy winter so far in Kitimat, known so far as Snow Valley. Looking out from my front window. I can see the low lying fog along the Kitimat River and Kitimat harbour, often totally obscuring Douglas Channel. Often the fog seems to hug the ground, meaning the tops of the conifers emerge from the fog to create a mysterious landscape. With the late December sun low in the southern sky, days before the Solstice, there is very little light. And as the headline indicates, under these conditions it’s hard to tell the difference between the original colour imagine and a black and white conversion.
The original colour image, using the cloudy white balance setting in Adobe Photoshop Raw. (Robin Rowland)
The black and white conversion. (Robin Rowland)
An original colour imagine of the trees in the fog, using the “as shot” setting in Adobe Photoshop Raw white balance.
The black and white conversion. (Robin Rowland)
Technical note. Sony Alpha 6000, using vintage Tele-Astranar 400mm F6.3 Prime telephoto, attached by an T-mount E-mount converter. ISO 4000 1/250 manual aperture f22.
