B&W Photo Challenge Day #26 - Tornado Damage 2 The Rebirth of Coney Island

The Rebirth of Coney Island

This is the 2nd picture from the tornado damage that hit my city back in November 2013. This is really great to see, because this my friends is one of the greatest places to eat in the entire country. The business Louie's Coney Island has been in my city for decades, and they are famous for their BAKES, look it up to see what I'm talking about, or just click this link here. And  here is another and while I was looking for these links, I saw that the business has been here since 1937. I love it and can't wait until it is open again here is a pic of the reconstruction, taken with my Nikon D5100. By the way I took this while at the red light.

B&W Photo Challenge Day#25 - Tornado Damage 1

Tornado Damage

Back on November 17, 2013 an F2 tornado ripped through my city here is a picture of one of the buildings that got damaged. I'll post a link here for a little more info on the damage if you're interested.

Pretty crazy stuff, but one of the most amazing things is that nobody died, so that is always a good thing. I shot this photo a few days ago with my D5100. My next photo will be of another business that was damaged and now they are rebuilding.

 

 

My Flickr Photostream Link

Flickr

In one of my last posts I mention that I'd be posting about my Flickr account. Well today is the day, You will find out that I do not have that many photos posted  (compared to other people on the site) this is only because I am pretty new to the site. You will also notice that you will find most of the phots from this blog, however there are plenty of others that you have not seen yet (like one's in color) since I'm in the middle of my B&W challenge, I figured you may need to see a little color from me. 

Just one quick note before I post my link, I must say that Flickr is beautiful and I really enjoy the layout. This was a nice surprise for me and probably will be for others who haven't checked out Yahoo products recently ( I was one of those people) I guess Yahoo still has a little MOJO left ion the creative/ design tank. 

Here is the link to my Flickr check it out frequently since I plan on adding photos on a regular basis.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/refocusgd/ 

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 #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.