I've gone all black and white landscape this weekend.
We went to Wollaton Park this afternoon. There was an RSPCA sponsored dog walk so we decided to see how Ruby would react to a park full of hundreds of dogs ! (and there were hundreds of dogs too). Surprisingly she was really well behaved. When we go on our local walks she's not very good when she sees or hears other dogs, but in Wollaton Park she must have thought it was not worth getting excited about with so many shapes and sizes all around her.
Wollaton Park has an old hall inside the park and this is the hall shot on a long lens with a lake in the foreground and some mature trees in the middle of the frame.
A gentle B/W conversion making the most of some rather bland skies and lighting.
The B & W is great - not bland at all. Bit of aversion therapy for Ruby then - glad she was OK!! Whippets are quite fragile-looking - I can imagine they don't like being jumped on. Monty is very used to alsorts of dogs but there are some he doesn't like at all - mostly big bumptious puppy types!
Phil.. a little cc? - I would have cropped out the lake - in B&W it looks like a flat field with some rubbish in. I might even have cropped right in on just the hall framed by trees.
Beautiful shot. Have you considered doing this in hdr? It looks great as is but I wonder how it would look processed that way. Glad Ruby had a good time and behaved :-)
@judithg thank you Judith, we've been unable to identify what types of dog winds her up yet...seems no real pattern, sheep dogs seem to send her a bit loopy :)
Great b&w I have been there once I think. Is there a real stuffed giraffe inside?
Pearl hates most flat faced type dogs, ie boxers, staffies, mastiffs, sharpays. She is not keen on anything big and is highly suspicious of anything with shaggy fur. Her pedigree reads like incest that the kennel club should outlaw she is just two dogs multiplied as many times as possible they appear in all 4 lines. I think this has a lot to do with these dog phobias, being attacked by 2 staffies when they were on leads has not helped.
@phil_howcroft can you do HDR on gimp it is free ware and supposed to be able to closely emulate photoshop. I have tried it but was not keen. Could you get PS Elements - it is supposed to be as good as PS in many ways.
@whippeteer Frances I had Gimp on my old laptop, it was pretty good but the interface was quite hard to get your head around at the time. I might give it a try again. thanks for the other url link too ...interesting reading :)
@whippeteer Frances I forgot to say, yes you are right about the Giraffe :)...it's not the best museum in the world , but it's free and part of the cities heritage to the people :)
Nice shot of impressive building.
Pearl hates most flat faced type dogs, ie boxers, staffies, mastiffs, sharpays. She is not keen on anything big and is highly suspicious of anything with shaggy fur. Her pedigree reads like incest that the kennel club should outlaw she is just two dogs multiplied as many times as possible they appear in all 4 lines. I think this has a lot to do with these dog phobias, being attacked by 2 staffies when they were on leads has not helped.