Shine Baby Shine!

While crossing the Strait of Georgia from Comox (Vancouver Island) to

Powell River (mainland) I've been attracted by this ferry worker that

spent about 15 minutes cleaning the bell to an almost mirror state.

I've got my camera towards the end of his job and I did mine. The

result is this capture. Comments, suggestions, critiques are always

welcome. Thank you.

Stefan,

  Great b/w image with wonderful processing & perfect title.  Thanks for sharing.  Take care, Patsy

Thank you, Patsy. Always nice. I appreciate very much.

Stefan

Fantastic textures, details  and perfect use of b&w

Wonderful tones and tittle most appropriate! I never get that richness of tones, B&W film or desaturated digital! And I'm trying so hard all my life!

Thank you for your poetic comment on my daughter's picture Stefan!

Best regards!

PDE

Thank you, Miguel and Pierre. I get lucky sometimes. But I miss a lot as well. I took about 8 shots until the guy got into this position with the bell almost done.

As for the tones, a bit of post processing helps a bit. But the original was also good to start with.

The conversion to B/W was done with a free plug-in that I found by chance: virtualPhotographer by OptikVerve Labs; it has a lot of presets but I prefer to control the process myself - it has 3 + 1 color filters (the last one is custom - you choose the color), you can add different effects or simply play with brightness, contrast, or grain (very realistic film grain emulation).