Ringwood Manor

My friend mike and I headed out to Skylands on July 4th to shoot some macro stuff, but found a line of cars a half mile long waiting to get to the Lake at 7am. So we headed instead to ringwood manor and found some nice subjects to photograph.  Lesson of the day always have a plan 'B'.  It was not what we had planned, but got some cool stuff here and found amazing light at Tiorati Brook (see previous post).

Keep Makin' Art!

Carl

More IR at Ringwood.

I can't believe I have been ignoring Ringwood and going to Skylands alone for the last three years. I have been missing out. I will have to correct that!

Have you noticed a theme in these images.... One of my Facebook viewers picked right up on it. They are about a journey... roads and gates etc. I had not seen that until I picked these four images.

Tomorrow A couple of the Ringwood images in color IR.... Cool stuff.

Keep Makin' Art

Carl

Infra Red at Ringwood Manor State Park

This morning I set out to Ringwood Manor State Park in Ringwood, NJ. It is right across the road from Skylands and has a wonderful manor house, gardens and grounds. There are tons of subjects to photograph and it is really well suited to black and white work. I am thrilled with today's images and will share several more tomorrow so come and check them out there.

I feel like I am really getting eye tuned to B&W again. I had forgotten how much I enjoy B&W as I have been shooting almost exclusively color since I went digital for all of my work in 2006.

How am I getting these images with such great tonal ranges? That is the question I have been asked most this week. First I one of my digital camera bodies converted to Infra Red by Digital Silver Imaging. These guys do all of my digital Black and White printing and I fully recommend them. Eric Luden at DSI also suggested I try Silver Efex Pro. This is a software plug-in for Photoshop and Aperture that was the final piece of the puzzle and gave me great control over my digital B&W images. If you are thinking of having a camera converted to Infrared. Go for it! I have not even begun to explore the wild, weird word of color infra red....... Stay Tuned.

Keep Makin' Art!

Carl