Pic 365

There I was.
In the late afternoon.
At the Pyramids of Giza.
Trying to take a picture of the Sphinx.

She has seen it so many times.
Waiting patiently for the humble amateur photographer to get his shot.
Against the sun.
Blown out sky.
Still. Attempting.

Back at the computer,
the poor amateur tries to save what he can.
The patient Sphinx couldn’t help him.
Even though she has seen it all before.
Many times.

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OK, silliness aside.
Here’s what I did:

Played heavily with all kinds of Levels in RAW format.
Tried to get a different background in the picture,
but for that I need to read Janice’s tutorial again.
Changed the pic to Sepia (another form of B&W).

Used Photoscape to get an old style - et voila

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You can participate all January long in our Black and White Photo challenge.
How?

Convert one or more of your pictures from colour to B&W, post them on your blog, come back here and leave me a link.

Now, if you want to play real nice, tell us a bit of what you did to get the result you got.
Or if you found a tutorial online and used it, link to it.
Or if you are able to, write your own

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Head on over to see John’s terrific tutorials on B&W conversion: Part 1 & Part 2

Janice posted two tutorials last year 1 and 2

Other participants:

Quilly already has her first tip posted and here her second

Dave and Bill are playing along.
Bill has a more from Tulsa, Oklahoma, a beautiful cutout and one from Piccadilly Circus, London and a wonderful old looking sepia here and here

Amanda shows some beautiful lights and a gorgeous Portrait and beautiful lamps and a gorgeous Portrait of her neighbour and one interesting take on hospital stuff. And here are some floral stills.

Thom shows a gorgeous Portrait and more Info about his learning curve and some flowers

The Squirrel Queen has a beautiful winter scene, b&w right out of the camera (thanks for the reminder, I need to go for that one one of these days again. Mine converts it right in the cam. Need to check the results there )

Go and Check the Sepia Scenes Meme for more Sepia Photos!