It's Been Awhile...

[Ken Ramos]

since I posted over here. So I thought I would jump the fence, run over here, and clutter things up a bit. I've been experimenting in monochrome (black and white) here of late and so...here are a few shots.:D

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/KenRamos/16A-1.jpg
EOS 30D
Monochrome setting
Manual mode, electronic yellow filtering/hand held
1/250 sec. @ f/14 ISO 400
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 ISO 400
Canon 430EX Speedlite w/diffuser @ -2/3
Partial metering, Post Processing: Photo Impact 6
(Same data for following images)

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/KenRamos/18A.jpg
Wild Rose, quite small, full frame

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n83/KenRamos/20A-1.jpg

Not quite sure what this is. Maybe a hopper or more than likely an immature Katydid. Odd looking fellow but of course it probably thought the same of me.:lol:

[racketman]

nice shots but can't see that monochrome gives much to macro shooting of this kind. Maybe i'm too straightjacketed by tradition - I see B&W for industrial landscape, portraits, abstracts - the usual!

[LordV]

Agree with RM but have to admit the lizard looks quite good with this treatment.

Brian V.

[Ken Ramos]

Thanks Racketman & Brian :D Black and white does leave a lot to be desired in macro, I agree but you don't see many black and whites anymore and most everyone shoots color. I guess I am living in the past with these, when color was unheard of. Yet I find black and white or monochrome, to be just as challanging, if not more so, than color photography. Thanks again guys. :D

[eccles]

Do you have a colour version of the last one?

[Ken Ramos]

eccles asked:

Do you have a colour version of the last one?


No, sorry I don't. All of the them were shot in mono.:)