Guernsey 2017 Revisited - Colour Concrete

Whilst I was creating the mono concrete images yesterday I created a mono preset in Lightroom to create an initial consistency between the images. They say brainwaves come from mistakes, whist I was applying my preset I happened to click on a different preset that I use with some of my abstract images. 'Wow' I thought to myself. Now I am sure the resultant images here are not going to be to everyones taste but I quite like the Gritty subdued images that were produced. Each image had to have a bit of a tweak following the application of the preset (as is normal)

Guernsey 2017 Revisited - Mono Concrete

Over the past few years I have been attracted to Concrete Architecture. I had a though the other evening about our holiday in 2017 with the Camera Club to Guernsey. While we were there we visited some World War II German Structures plus other structures. I found the images I was thinking about and converted them to Monochrome and gave them a 'strong gritty' feel. I personally quite pleased with the results. (The WWII Structure is called Fort Hommet, The others (except one) are from Fort Grey a Martello Tower, built in about 1804)

Guernsey 13 - Fort Hommet

These pictures are from Fort Hommet. A structure between Cobo Bay and Vazon Bay. This was used by the German Occupying Forces during World War 2.

More information on wikipedia here

Guernsey 06 - Cobo Bay Infrared 02

After breakfast walk on Cobo Bay Beach. I decided to talk only the Infrared Camera. Some of these images have been channel swapped in photoshop (turns the blue to brown). I particularly like this technique for beach scenes. A couple of the images have had a diffused glow added to create a surreal effect. Still learning :)

Guernsey 03 - Cobo Bay Infrared

At the last minute while packing I decided that I had enough room in my camera bag (very kindly lent to me by friend Ken Bingham) to include my Infrared Converted Canon EOS 20D. I put the 50mm f/1.8 lens on it and away we went. What did I forget? The Compact Flash reader (my Olympus uses SD Cards). 'Blow it' I said. So whilst in St Peter Port I purchased a cheap CF reader.

The images here have been process mainly in lightroom. Monochromes have been processed in Photoshop and the NIK Silver Efex plug in. The 'pink toned ones' have had the channel swap technique.