Photo 150 - Howard_S

Thank you for the feedback, Wētāpunga - much appreciated.

I took a lot of photos at Machu Picchu using the camera's Rich Tone Mono setting, and I rather liked what I was seeing on the camera LCD at the time. My enthusiasm for toning waxes and wanes; I will experiment with duotones in Lightroom sometimes, but purposeful vintage looks, I'm not so sure. That said, Silver Efex Pro has an effect that matches your description ...


Machu Picchu overview - Silver Efex Pro Antique Plate II treatment

I posted more from Machu Picchu in Open Views here, and I plan to do a second set soon.

Edited by Howard_S - 02 November 2021 at 12:02

Week 44 Theme 2 ultrawide aspect ratio


Festival masks
Date Taken: 2013-05-24 12:44:39 | Camera Model: NEX-7 | Lens: E 30mm F2.8 | Focal Length: 30 mm | Mode: Program AE | Aperture: f/4.0 | Exposure Time: 0.017 sec (1/60) | ISO: 1600 | 35mm Equivalent: 45 mm

It's back to Peru for my ultrawide aspect ratio shot this week and here are some Peruvian Festival Masks. We were in the Cuzco / Machu Picchu area for the week of Whitsun and there were a number of parades and processions where people wore these masks in I think what is called syncretism - the taking over of older beliefs with christian meaning.

Week 45 Theme 1: Peru trip, May 2013


Day 15 Diving
Date Taken: 2013-05-25 11:49:16 | Camera Model: NEX-7 | Lens: E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS | Focal Length: 210 mm | Mode: Program AE | Aperture: f/6.3 | Exposure Time: 0.003 sec (1/400) | ISO: 100 | 35mm Equivalent: 315 mm

A second free day in Cuzco before returning to Lima and flying home. And you see some odd things from time to time.

Week 45 Theme 3 vintage digital


Masked festival dancers
Date Taken: 2013-05-25 20:13:37 | Camera Model: NEX-7 | Lens: E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS | Focal Length: 21 mm | Mode: Program AE | Aperture: f/4.0 | Exposure Time: 0.125 sec (1/8) | ISO: 6400 | 35mm Equivalent: 31 mm

And again back to Peru for this night shot of festival dancers outside Cuzco cathedral; it was the week of Whitsun and I think some local festivals are celebrated at this time.

4paul wrote: Good choice for the wide crop on the Harrier, I like Masked festival dancers, I wonder what happens if you turn up the saturation/vibrancy? I think more color would give the background more definition.

Thanks, Paul.

I tried adjusting the colours, but I think the streetlighting becomes more pronounced, defeating the object somewhat

Week 46 Theme 2 ultrawide aspect ratio


Stick
Date Taken: 2021-11-23 13:21:39 | Camera Model: DSLR-A900 | Lens: 24-105mm F3.5-4.5 | Focal Length: 30 mm | Mode: Aperture-priority AE | Aperture: f/4.5 | Exposure Time: 0.008 sec (1/125) | ISO: 200 | 35mm Equivalent: 30 mm

On a walk in the Warburg Nature Reserve in Oxfordshire with the A900 'vintage digital' camera. I selected this for the cinemascope treatment this week.

Week 47 Theme 1: Peru trip, May 2013


Day 17 Sacrificial cup and knife
Date Taken: 2013-05-27 12:43:21 | Camera Model: NEX-7 | Lens: E 30mm F2.8 | Focal Length: 30 mm | Mode: Program AE | Aperture: f/2.8 | Exposure Time: 0.017 sec (1/60) | ISO: 1600 | 35mm Equivalent: 45 mm

It's our last day of the holiday and before we head out to the airport for an end-of-day flight back to Europe we head to the Museo Larco, probably the best museum of pre-Columbian artefacts in Peru. The objects are quite terrifying, mostly, depicting human sacrifice in one form or another. These silver objects are a knife to cut the victim's throat, and a goblet to hold the spilled blood. All this hundreds of years before the Incas took over.