So recently I saw a post from Kirk Tuck and it got me thinking about something B&W portraits.  At which point it got me thinking about a blog post that Sabrina Henry did a while back about going back and review old photos and adding a new look to them.  So with the double inspiration I dug back in the files and found these shots of my good friends Jeff and Misty

Has a great time shooting these, we found the great old door in the back alley parking lot of a local pub and stayed there for the better part of an hour shooting.

The conversion for this was done in Silver Efex Pro

Captured with Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 II on Lexar digital film

Ok true there was no real part one, but remember that post about falling for falls? Yeah that was part 1. So I have been slowly getting through the last of my images from Texas, and I found a few more from Gorman Falls that I wanted to share. At the same time I am eating out how it is to do posts from the iPad, which so far is easy.

Loved the sunlight streaking through the water on this one. Only issues was that the warm glow of the morning sun had turned to a blazing white. So I dropped the image into the Brilliance/Warmth filter and added a touch of warmth to the water to bring back that glow.

Lastly, a non- hydro shot. The vegetation in the canyon is amazing. Jeff is not kidding in his posts when he says it’s a rain forest down there. This was a straight shot from camera the greens are amazing.

Captured with D700 70-200f2.8 w/ Vari-n-duo filter on Lexar digital film

Another adventure from the weekend of roads less traveled. This was on another road not too far from the one I found last weekend that had so many great things to photograph. Lots of the smaller wildflowers were out in bloom and it made for a great drive. Found this bunch of flowers with the fence and the tree way up on the hill and tried to find some way to make them all work out in the photo. Used a .9 Split Grad filter to bring the exposure down on the clouds. Finished is out with a touch a Viveza 2 and Color Efex 3.1 in post.

Simple B&W close up of the post. Just had to get a B&W in been really enjoying creating B&W images lately.

Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film

With getting a new camera system there are things that you have to consider: What body to start with, lenses to get, and accessories to have. All of these effect your photography because you may not have everything you had before so you have to find ways to make it work until you can completely replace your old system with your new one. One thing that I miss already is my 100 Macro that I had, while it was a specialty type lens really only good for a few things, I really enjoyed using it for Macro photography. But with the switch to Nikon I haven’t replaced that lens yet, so I did the next best thing. I slapped a Canon 500D close-up filter on the new 70-200f2.8 and went looking for some wild flowers.

I have no idea the names of these flowers, but they were really fun to photograph.

Not to bad for a windy day.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 with 500D Close-up lens on Lexar digital film

So I took the new gear out for a spin yesterday to get used to it and to make sure I worked out the kinks before heading to Texas for Jeff’s Texas Landscape Safari.  I took a road that I haven’t been down in I don’t know how long, but I am happy I decided to head that way.

Came across a huge grouping of California Poppies to start of the trip.  All this and I forgot my macro

At this top of the hill was this great tree.  Made of a great conversion to Infrared B&W

Great mailbox about 2 miles from the flowers.  I can’t believe all the stuff I was finding on a 5 mile stretch of road this point.

Found this guy hanging out at the barn below.

It was a great trip and this wasn’t all I caught.  Over at the Life @ 50 project you can see what else I caught and I have a few more posts coming up in the next few days to show off a bit more of what I found.  Had a lot of fun with an old tractor I found that I did a Single shot HDR on.

Images Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 and 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film