I have just added this to Google +. A rework of an old shot I made in Lahore – I used my X1 and converted this in LR4, used a Define 2 filter and tonal contrast from NIK. It is the Badshahi Mosque.
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
Monochrome Friday
I have just added this to Google +. A rework of an old shot I made in Lahore – I used my X1 and converted this in LR4, used a Define 2 filter and tonal contrast from NIK. It is the Badshahi Mosque.
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
All downhill from here 
Looks like an illustration out of a book. The
Kama SutraProphet perhaps?Beautiful 🙂
Superbly processed – a talent of yours i was not yet aware of. I stand in awe.
Thank you, Alessandro. I must have used a preset!!
Wow! This is amazing! Brill!
Thanks Val!
Looks terrific! Very nicely done!
I do like monochrome used for architecture. Your post treatment of this gives it a wonderful illustration feel. Really beautiful structure and very sympathetic photographic rendering.
This is indeed a fine image and I really like your rendering, Andrew. As you know, I am also revisiting older images to see how they do in monochrome. Sometimes the images that seem a bit blah really shine in B&W.
Thank you Steve. Working out what works in colour and what in monochrome is my big challenge right now. Shooting RAW and B&W jpegs is a way of doing so. It’s trickier with flowers than street, I think.
makes the eye concentrate more on the symmetry, Andrew, no colour, just shade an shape, makes you focus better.. methinks.. xx
Thanks Pen. Simplicity works for me but I’m just a simple person.
Nay Sirrah, thou art cleverer than I, (apols,..:-) . just love trying out Shakespearean Words) … I have a Samsung PL20 and I’m still trying to figure out the menu… I opened a Flickr account, but no hope with my efforts, I’d be ashamed to show them with so many good photographers just like yourself. xPenx
beautiful judgement of tones
Thank you Stephen.
Does look good in monochrome. Now I’ve found a plugin that works for WLW I’m starting to use google+ more and more for hosting my blog images, in preference to Flickr.
Love the photo. It seems to sparkle all over the place, it is perhaps the combination of the shot and the beauty of the building. It almost looks as if the garbed man and boy at the front are part of the fountain scene. Are they real or a sculpture?
They are very real, Gerard. Thank you!
Really good work, Andrew. Editing this photograph in LR4 as a monochrome made this one exceptional.
Thanks Yvonne. I was surprised how much better it looked in monochrome. I now want to redo some other old images from the same trip.
Great. I’ll look forward to those posts.
Absolutely stunning image Andrew
Thanks Barry!
The sharpness in the detail really makes the image pop, it seems like an etching. Great image.
What an absolutely stunning picture. Graceful, beautiful, captivating – It works so well in B&W. The detail is extraordinary. Really fantastic, Andrew.
Wow this is just incredible. Love the depth in the sky
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What a great shot. I love the black and white.
-Graham
Thanks very much, Graham.