LuLa Cover: Black and White Berg, Antarctica

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Great shot, Kevin - I really didn't know there grew mushrooms on Antarctica.
And it would be great if you could provide links to the bigger versions or have popup possibility for the title images.
What I treally like is the GPS tags, so I could see where the shot was taken.

Cheers
~Chris



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[Kevin Raber]

Thanks,  Glad the GPS info is coming through.  As far as larger images of the home page.  We are workings with our site developer to put something in place.  You can always go to my blog at kevinraber.com, go to the Antarctica 2013 Gallery and any of those images should click through to be real large.  I have a 40 inch enlargement of the the last two published images and will be displaying them tonight for the open house at my new gallery in Indianapolis.

[Ray]

Great shot, Kevin - I really didn't know there grew mushrooms on Antarctica.

That was the first thought that popped into my mind, when I first set eyes on the shot.

What a great mushroom! 

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

That was the first thought that popped into my mind, when I first set eyes on the shot.

What a great mushroom!  

These icebergs are so cool - one in the article looked like a giant sponge - crazy stuff ...


Here it is for your convenience:

[Jeremy Roussak]

These icebergs are so cool

Cold, some might say 

Jeremy

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Cold, some might say 

Jeremy

Should I have added: "Pun intended" ?

[Rand47]

Kevin,

Share with us, if you will, how this image was processed/optimized. The tonality and sense of depth is marvelous. 

Rand

[Kevin Raber]

Kevin,

Share with us, if you will, how this image was processed/optimized. The tonality and sense of depth is marvelous. 

Rand

Certainly happy to share.  The basics were ISO 400, 1/1600 sec, f11, 24mm setting on a 12-24 nikon zoom.   RAW image was brought into Capture One.  Histogram was just about perfect.  I decreased the exposure in Capture One by almost a stop. Added 2 on contrast and 5 on the saturation.  I did the increase in saturation so when I made the BW I could adjust the prominent color which was blue.  After the exposure change I ended up moving the histogram a bit to the left.  I then remapped in levels.  I did some highlight recovery to make sure I retained detail in the bright areas of the iceberg.  Capture One does a great job of this.  This was all done in the color mode.  I then cloned the image (make a copy with adjustments).  I then used the BW conversion tool in Capture One and decreased the blue (made drier).  This is another way to duplicate what  a red filter would have done in pure BW film terms.  Simple as that.  Images below show the setting in Capture One.  I saved these images a stele so I could do a one click adjustment on other iceberg images like this.  The color image is really nice too, just really liked what could be done in BW here.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

“For technical data – the camera was faithfully used.”
— Minor White

Kevin might well have said: "The camera and software were faithfully used." 

[Rand47]

Kevin,

Thanks very much.  Your approach made sense to me (which is good "for me" LOL).  And as Eric said, "The camera and software were faithfully used."  But, for someone such as I, mostly learning on my own from various sources such as LULA and Jeff's wonderful books, and in my desire to improve my understanding and technique, hearing / seeing what you did serves as both instruction and validation of my sense of how you approached it.  Thank you for sharing.  It is a beautiful, rich, image that I would never tire of seeing.

Rand

[jjj]

These icebergs are so cool - one in the article looked like a giant sponge - crazy stuff ...

Reminds me of the Birmingham Selfridges's store as immortalised on many a Windows desktop.

[Isaac]

These icebergs are so cool - one in the article looked like a giant sponge - crazy stuff ...

Suncups.

[eleanorbrown]

Kevin this black and white of Antarctica is, by far, one of the finest images I've ever seen of the bottom of the world, or anywhere for that matter.  You did a gorgeous conversion!  When I first saw the image on the Lula front page my eyes did a double take!  Great job!! Eleanor

[gjanee]

This picture receives an interesting commentary over at LensWork, "The 0.22 Megapixel Nikon D800E", http://daily.lenswork.com/2013/12/the-022-megapixel-nikon-d800e.html

[jjj]

Ooh, that article could spawn a mega-thread on Lula.....

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

This picture receives an interesting commentary over at LensWork, "The 0.22 Megapixel Nikon D800E", http://daily.lenswork.com/2013/12/the-022-megapixel-nikon-d800e.html

I think its unfair to us other photogs, that Kevin let his D800E pimp to 0.22 MP and have that technical advantage to make such a stunning image.