Wise men from the East?

PaulC · Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Posts: 2318

Here ya go, this is the nearest I get to a Christmas image. From the Pentacon Six with the Flektogon 50/4 in poor light. I pretty much got the effect I wanted with this one but I really am finding it hard to make B&W work for me the way it used to long ago.

(For some reason it looks darker here than in PS ... oh, well)

martinsmith99 · Expire: 2013-11-18

B&W is a bit tricky at times. I think these look ok, but maybe a fraction dark if you want to be fussy.

Good catch nonetheless. The movement in the camel's head makes it very real.

PaulC · Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Posts: 2318

Maybe I'm doing something wrong with "dot gain" or summat - I really don't understand it.

I snapped it really fast because the woman was just coming into the fram e on the left and I didn't want her obscured. I've seen bedouin camps in Jordan like this, but it is a rarity in the Gulf. When they rode the camels in the parade a few days later one local paper described them as "members of the Heritage Police", so I guess the blokes are cops. The woman was either a ministry official or a reporter - I'm not sure which.