Tag: Black and White

Elwha River – Downriver from Altair Campground

Elwha River – Downriver from Altair Campground

This is the Elwha River from the bridge next to Altair Campground in Olympic National Park. This was an area between the two dams on the river that have now been removed. I like the way the ridge lines head down in the same direction as the river and the clouds add drama to the sky. This was taken with my Nikon D-850 … so a digital camera. I converted the image to Black and White (B&W) using Adobe Lightroom Classic. I like converting color images to B&W instead of shooting B&W film. With film you would need to use multiple filters to get this same image … and not have a way to check the image before processing. In the computer, you can adjust each color channel to get the effect you want.

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Clouds and Ridges

The top image is looking across the valley of the Elwha to the north end of the Bailey Range … central section of the Olympic National Park. The image below is looking farther south to the central section of the Bailey Range. Besides the beauty of the clouds and weather with the interplay with the ridges, the unsettled weather keeps the crowds down.

Clouds and Ridges 2
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Views of Mt Steel

View of Mt Steel – 1

I take most of my images in color. In the old days, that was film … these days the images provided by most cameras are full color with sensor sites recording red, blue or green. Once you import the image file into a computer, the image can be converted to black and white and adjusted … similar in many ways to the work that was done with film based images while in the darkroom.

These images were of Mt Steel at the upper end of the Duckabush valley in the Olympic National Park.

View of Mt Steel – 2
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Ocean Sunset

Ocean Sunset

I don’t usually convert sunset photos to Black and White … since they are often photos that are “about” the colors. This one, however, had such interesting patterns and lines that I thought the color was distracting. (and, this isn’t likely to burn, either)

The location is Kalaloch on the beach of the Olympic National Park.

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