B&W Photo Challenge Day #9- Pole Position

Pole Position

So due to the fact that this polar vortex has destroyed my ability to take any photos; I have resorted to using old pictures I have taken and converting them to B&W. I can't take this cold, -7 outside with -25 wind chill factor, plus I really don't think this is good on any camera. So since it's so damn cold, I've decided to post a pic from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ( if people haven't caught on I live in Indiana) since that reminds me of a good and warm time of year. This shot was taken with my Sony DSC-HX-1, I desaturated it in Photoshop and made some adjustments. Just remember 54 days until Spring!!!

B&W Challenge day #8 559's

559's

Another exciting shot of  something in a store(sarcasm is my specialty) Once again this photo was taken with my cellphone, then heavily filtered using 2 Google Apps. Not a lot more to say about this one, other than my annoyance level is continuing to grow. SPRING CAN NOT GET HERE SOON ENOUGH!!!

B&W Photo Challenge Day #7 King James

Okay I know it's been a few days,and mainly thanks to this weather I have not been able to take pictures of anything not of anything that cool so I have to do what I have to do and that is take pictures of random things in stores or around my house. I think I said that was what I was going to do anyways, since I can see the future, not really but anyways this photo was taken with my trust cellphone the Galaxy Nexus. Matter of fact the next few posts are with that camera as well because I'm not going to expose any good camera to this hell (-25 windchill factor) I think not!! 
So this photo I took inside of Sam's club while..... guess what??? waiting for my wife Oh the theme continues! As you can see I heavily tweaked this bad boy in some Google Apps, then just cropped it some in Photoshop.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #6- Wet Fit

Wet Fit

This is a picture of my car after being in the snow (because it's snowing again!!!) her name is Gloria and she is a 2009 Honda Fit with a mere 37K miles on it, and I love her, so I figured she deserved a little action in my challenge. I took this photo with my 

Nikon D5100 18mm , ISO 800, 1/4 sec. shutter speed, no flash.

I used a little clip light to the right with a weak 60 watt bulb, I had it clipped to my weed whacker ;) !!

I noticed it did blow out the image a little in the headlight, but it was cold and the set up was shaky. All in all though I think it came out pretty good ( and now I know what I can do different, I will try again when the weather is better. I post processed this photo 1st in Camera Raw (because I shot it in raw) some adjustments I made were to the contrast, blacks, sharpening, and a few more tweaks. I then opened it up in Photoshop and basically did some more minor adjustments, and oh yeah I desaturated  it because I originally shot this in full color. Well enough of the ramblings, but before I go I would like to send a shout out to my few foreign visitors ( that I hope to gain more of) thanks for visiting people of Germany, Finland, France, and the Ukraine.

Gloria all Wet!

B&W Photo Challenge Day #5 Iphone 5s

Doctor Sleep

Today's picture was taken with my wife's Iphone 5s, which has a 8 Megapixel camera. I switched the shooting mode to Noir to take this picture of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep book while in Target ( and yes my wife was shopping again, seems like I theme) I didn't make any adjustments to the photo at all and I'd have to say that it came out pretty well. For those of you who don't know Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining, and not that they need a plug (paper or author) here is a more thorough review of the book by the New York Times  I myself haven't had a chance to read this book yet (because lets be honest, who has time to read novels?) but it sounds really good, I just hope I get to read it before they make it into a movie. Tomorrow who knows what the day will bring.

B&W photo challenge day #4-"Unfiltered Poison on Sale"

Okay today it snowed(again) I didn't get a chance to leave my house, but luckily yesterday while at the mall I did manage to take this shot in Carson's of the clearance table. So just like yesterday this photo was taken with my Galaxy Nexus. The difference with this photo is that, I only used a basic B&W filter, and made no other adjustments ( so I guess it's not totally unfiltered 😋) I'm learning that this challenge will not be as easy as I thought. I said to myself " how hard can it be to take 1 picture a day?" Well how many times have anyone just took 1 picture and say " yep that's the one!"( never for me) Well I guess that's why they call it a challenge.

B&W challenge day #3

Today's picture was taken with the trusty old cellphone, the camera really only performs well in natural light ( and I mean a sunny clear day) my phone the Galaxy Nexus only has a 5 megapixel camera. I had to snap this photo while waiting for my wife at the mall, I took it in a bit of a hurry because another major problem with my phone, is the battery life is just terrible!

Anyways the app I used to post process this little plant pic was Snapseed. I used the b&w filter, made some adjustments to the contrast,and added some sharpening. I also ran it through the HDR filter. Still hoping to get a cool outdoor shot( damn you weather!)

B&W Photo Challenge Day #2 Hand of a Married Man

I call this one Hand of a Married Man. This is my hand, it looks a lot older in Black and White! This was shot with my Nokia D5100 

ISO 200, F/5.6, 1/30 sec. 

That's it for the technical info, but as far as the image goes, I am still getting the hang of my camera. I had the camera on Macro mode instead of manual ( I was being lazy) I did have the camera set to shoot in B&W (as they like to call it monochrome) however for this photo I used the on camera adjustment to make it B&W, other than that no adjustments were made. I promise to try to get out of my house and snap a pic of something more interesting than my hand, but it is winter and I hate being cold.

Black and White

I have decided to take on a little challenge for myself, for the next 30 days I will be taking b&w photos. The plan will be to take shots of various things, nothing in particular but I do want to try to take them with various cameras. I have a Nokia d5100, Sony DSC HX-1, Galaxy nexus, Nexus 7 tablet (with a craptastic 1.3 megapixel camera) and I may even try to snap some with my Apple fan girl of a wife's 5s, and iPad mini. So we shall see how it goes, I'm not promising I'll post a pic a day but I'll try to get them up at least by the week and at the end I hope to post them all. So for the first one I took today with the craptastic Nexus 7 camera a selfie ( since that's pretty much all you can take with it) I doctored it up using a few apps, cause otherwise it would really look crappy. I look So Thrilled Huh???