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In Snowdonia - Cwmorthin Quarry in monochrome - see more clearly in black and white!

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As promised the photos from the previous blog have been digitally converted to monochrome using Silver Efex Pro 2. In most of them I have been pretty heavy with the grain. Which do you prefer? The last picture is the one pinhole photograph I took. My umbrella was blown inside out by the wind and a strut snapped while I was taking it!.

Post Processing the Stone Tree

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I was pretty pleased with the pictures I took of the stone tree in Bolivia (see previous blog) so I thought I would share with you some of the versions of one picture I made when post processing. I always start with opening up the pictures in Lightroom 4. I then produced one straightforward picture just using the adjustments in Lightroom I then took this picture in to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and used the Tonal Contrast filter to bring out some of the detail and add a bit of punch. I then used the reflector Efex to open up the dark area inside the 'tree' and slightly reduce the tree's shadow. I used this picture as a base for the others. I then worked further on this picture. Back in Color Efex I used a custom filter to give a high key image, which makes it look a little post apocalyptic. I also took the base image and again in Color Efex used the Polaroid Transfer filter to give a bit of smear and a softer look. I quite like this effect. Here