A World of Their Own [Yellow House on NC 205, Black and White]

This one definitely shows the house as pale yellow on my laptop monitor.  Most others say that it is all B&W (house included),  so I guess that this monitor is the problem.

 

This is too weird for me: the white in the clouds is white on my monitor, but the house shows up as pale yellow--for me, on this monitor.  It does make me wonder what others would see on my monitor.  Taking a screen shot does not solve the problem.  It (pale yellow) is still here (for me), even after I run it through Desat and save it!  Totally weird.

 

If I start all over and do not push the yellow slider to 100 percent (layers --> BW) but in fact reduce yellow to zero (on the slider), on the other hand, then and only then does the color go away.  That is, this one (which I see with a faint yellow cast) started life with color strongly embedded in the version that I saved after first processing it (Layers --> BW).  It makes on wonder if it is still there somehow IN THE FILE, but not visible on some monitors.  I am totally confused by the theoretical possibilities here.

 

--Lannie

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--Lannie

The house reads as bright white on my monitor but certainly stands out since it is by far the lightest and brightest element of the picture. But all this talk about technical specifics shouldn't obscure the fact that it's a very good picture, a very nicely toned wide angle shot. The floating sea of clouds really makes the picture and imparts an almost fairytale effect.

Please look at this black and white treatment and give me somefeedback.

--Lannie

Thank you, Jack.  Some of these illusions I will never understand.  I wonder how it prints.

 

--Lannie

the house is white the  shadow of house is white its the White House and the clouds are white and its a really good scenic shot  i can smell the  chicken fried chicken.

Thank you, Stephanie.  Come in and sit down and have some good ol' fried chicken.

 

--Lannie

Lanny,  I like this one too, but prefer the color one.  Larry

Shot one-handed at 55mph, ISO 800, 1/8000 sec.

 

Thank you, Larry.

 

--Lannie

PLAYING LIKE I WAS THE GOOGLE PHOTO BUGGY:

 

This is another shot made more or less randomly (and one-handedly) as I drove up the road at fifty to fifty-five miles per hour, on a trip of sixty plus miles that I made every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon during the spring term, from Wingate University back to Salisbury. Almost all were shot toward the open passenger side window while my eyes were looking at the road ahead of me.  Most of the time I was not shooting, of course, but, if I noticed something interesting up ahead, I would shoot to my right as I went by.

 

I had to toss most pictures, of course, but a few were more or less usable--at least after rotation and some cropping.

 

Typical exposure data: ISO 800 to 1600, f/8, up to 1/8000 sec

 

Focal length: 24 mm

 

Sensor: 36 megapixel, full-frame (Nikon D800E) [One or two days I shot the Nikon D7000.]  Most days I shot nothing.

 

Once in a while, for some subjects, I would stop the car and shoot on foot.  Upon some rare occasions, I would turn around and go back and stop the car and make a lot of shots on foot if the subject was really promising.

 

Most shots not made as noted above were shot with my cell phone camera.

 

After download to my computer, using Irfan View, I could later quickly review the day's harvest of photos to see if there was anything worth a second look.

 

--Lannie