A View of St. Pauls.

A View of St. Pauls. · 12:33 PM

In Cheapside London, no buildin' is allowed to exceed or eclipse the height of St. Pauls, and therefore obstruct the view of it. So, this is my take on St. Pauls.
By the way, I forgot to mention that this shot was taken with a different camera, my apologies.
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Slightly St. Pauls

paulyrichard · 08-31-2009, 07:04 AM

It can be very expensive to do it perfectly right. I think there are other people on here who know much more than me, but if you do a search for 'monitor calibration' there'll be sites that can help you with it free jus' by tunin' your monitor with a display of tones on their web page.

jimH · 08-31-2009, 07:34 AM

Originally posted by paulyrichard

It can be very expensive to do it perfectly right. I think there are other people on here who know much more than me, but if you do a search for 'monitor calibration' there'll be sites that can help you with it free jus' by tunin' your monitor with a display of tones on their web page.

Thanks Pauly, I went to a site called "Photo Friday" and they have a calibration chart that allows you to calibrate your monitor, checked mine against that chart and it looks pretty good.

paulyrichard · 08-31-2009, 08:36 AM

Did you need to calibrate it in a big way or not?

jimH · 08-31-2009, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by paulyrichard

Did you need to calibrate it in a big way or not?

Not so much, I tweaked the contrast just a small amount but I had good whites and blacks and could see all of the gradients in between, I didn't have to tweak the brightness at all. I think the biggest problem that I have is my printer doesn't have the capability to use various gray inks as some of the printers do. I also have an HP Photosmart C-4280 all in one and there may be gray cartridges available for it.

8540tomg · 08-31-2009, 11:43 AM

Late to this thread with little new to add other than I really like this image. Well done.

Tom G

JMR · 09-01-2009, 10:04 AM

Excellent juxtaposition. And I really like what appears to be a kind of dappled variagated light.
Is this a split tone image? Would mind explaining how this is done? I do not have Photo Shop, but its smaller version Elements.

JMR

paulyrichard · 09-01-2009, 11:07 AM

Thanks Tom, thanks JMR.

JMR, this is a straight B&W image, no split-tonin' in this. The light is all natural too.
I use Lightroom for my processin' and all I did here was convert it to B&W and I tweaked the sky to darken it a little usin' the blue channel, it didn't need much. Cheers.

mannesty · 09-01-2009, 02:31 PM

Was this shot retaken with a Pentax camera, or is it from your Ricoh GX200 P&S as stated here.

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08-31-2009, 07:04 AM	#16
paulyrichard Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 871 Original Poster	It can be very expensive to do it perfectly right. I think there are other people on here who know much more than me, but if you do a search for 'monitor calibration' there'll be sites that can help you with it free jus' by tunin' your monitor with a display of tones on their web page.

08-31-2009, 07:34 AM	#17
jimH Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Central Nebraska - USA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,771	Originally posted by paulyrichard It can be very expensive to do it perfectly right. I think there are other people on here who know much more than me, but if you do a search for 'monitor calibration' there'll be sites that can help you with it free jus' by tunin' your monitor with a display of tones on their web page. Thanks Pauly, I went to a site called "Photo Friday" and they have a calibration chart that allows you to calibrate your monitor, checked mine against that chart and it looks pretty good.

08-31-2009, 08:36 AM	#18
paulyrichard Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 871 Original Poster	Did you need to calibrate it in a big way or not?

08-31-2009, 09:24 AM	#19
jimH Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Central Nebraska - USA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,771	Originally posted by paulyrichard Did you need to calibrate it in a big way or not? Not so much, I tweaked the contrast just a small amount but I had good whites and blacks and could see all of the gradients in between, I didn't have to tweak the brightness at all. I think the biggest problem that I have is my printer doesn't have the capability to use various gray inks as some of the printers do. I also have an HP Photosmart C-4280 all in one and there may be gray cartridges available for it.

08-31-2009, 11:43 AM	#20
8540tomg Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Photos: Gallery Posts: 4,461	Late to this thread with little new to add other than I really like this image. Well done. Tom G

09-01-2009, 10:04 AM	#21
JMR Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 3,332	Excellent juxtaposition. And I really like what appears to be a kind of dappled variagated light. Is this a split tone image? Would mind explaining how this is done? I do not have Photo Shop, but its smaller version Elements. JMR

09-01-2009, 11:07 AM	#22
paulyrichard Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 871 Original Poster	Thanks Tom, thanks JMR. JMR, this is a straight B&W image, no split-tonin' in this. The light is all natural too. I use Lightroom for my processin' and all I did here was convert it to B&W and I tweaked the sky to darken it a little usin' the blue channel, it didn't need much. Cheers.

09-01-2009, 02:31 PM	#23
mannesty Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Totana - Murcia (Spain) Posts: 127	Was this shot retaken with a Pentax camera, or is it from your Ricoh GX200 P&S as stated here.