{"id":17,"date":"2012-05-27T01:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-10-03T07:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T07:18:04","slug":"17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/17\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and White Photography in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18\" style=\"width: 1512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-image-18 size-full\" title=\"St Kilda Beachfront Pier\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of pier at St Kilda\" width=\"1502\" height=\"1001\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553.jpg 1502w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553-450x300.jpg 450w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-image-18 size-full\" title=\"St Kilda Beachfront Pier\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of pier at St Kilda\" width=\"1502\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553.jpg 1502w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AE15102AEC4941048CA9C99366E1B553-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black and white image of pier at St Kilda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been experimenting with some new Photoshop filters that I bought for creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/category\/mono\/\">black and white photographs<\/a> \u2013 Silver Efex Pro for example.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It reminded me of the limited time that I spent years ago trying to apply &#8216;post-processing&#8217; in the photo lab at university &#8211; holding my hands over the image, so as to over-expose some areas and under-expose other parts.<\/p>\n<p>It is stating the obvious that it is so much easier these days. But it does still depend on capturing an appropriate image in the first place. That said, with enough skill and patience, a fairly ordinary photograph can be made to look far more dramatic. Does that make one a skilled photographer, post-production expert, or designer\u2026 or something else? Does it really matter?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I do like the above image. I wish it could be processed using a gelatin-silver process. I read recently that a digital silver gelatin process has been developed \u2013 I think it was an Ilford product. Would be interesting to investigate this further at some point.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Photoshop filters for black and white photography and silver gelatin printing.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mono","category-tech","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}