Black and White Challenge

[Cicada]

Our Detroit Lakes Photo Group took turns challenging each other with a five B&W in five days challenge. Kind of fun to set the camera to Black and White and shoot that way.

Pump at Maplewood State Park. Getting dark and had to hurry.

War memorial in Detroit Lakes. Star filter and fog filter added to camera.

Crystal baseball given to me by my sister. Put a light under a drinking glass and set the ball and its pedestal on top of the glass for lighting.

Stacked a neutral density filter with a polarizing filter to blur the movement of the water.

Dad sighting in his rifle for deer season.

My five entries.

Feel free to take the challenge and add you pics to this post. It was kind of fun.

[eyeguy 54]

i like that water shot.

[Dbl]

Nicely done.

[Ufatz]

I still favor B&W all these years later...clear back to when I saw the first A.Adams stuff and then started shooting news with a Leica M2 and M3.Some of my favorite images (personal) are in B&W and I enjoy certain ancient movies done in B%&W. It's hard to described the dozens of tonal differences sometimes in just ONE scene in some of those movies.

Egads......for a day a field, a nice M3 or basic Nikon and a bag of Tri-X or PanX.

Of course now I am old enough that I even THINK in B&W! Ha Ha Ha.

Nice work boys.....have fun.

Come to think of it maybe I'll go out tonight with my little pocket Nikon and see what I can do with it.

[Cicada]

Look forward to seeing some black and whites added to this post.

Speaking of Ansel Adams:

http://www.mmam.org/Visit/Current-and-Upcoming-Exhibitions/Classic-Images-Ansel-Adams

Big showing of original prints by Mr Adams himself until January 11th in Winona, MN.