This weekend for Labor Day my wife and I went to Spartanburg, SC to visit her sister. Over the weekend we went to a couple of parks and a couple of historical areas. I took close to 190 pictures with my Canon and my wife took a good number of pictures with the Olympus. One of the places we went was the Walnut Grove Plantation, which was granted to Charles Moore by King George III of England in the 1760’s. Since this was a historical place, I thought making the pictures black and white would have a nice effect. Here is the main house of the plantation along with a small structure with a wagon underneath. Both the master (scaled down) and the digitally processed images are shown.


Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/2500 sec
ISO100 with 0ev
Focal Length: 17mm


Cropped, exposure dialed back, contrast dialed up, and highlights dodged.


Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/80
ISO 100 with 0ev
Focal Length: 17mm


Cropped and exposure dialed back.

Here is one last photo I decided to add. It originally was a little underexposed as I metered the wrong area, but that was easily fixed in Aperture. There is also a little noise as this was taken at ISO1600… but I think that would be a little more difficult to detect when the image is scaled down. The thing that really stood out for me was how I was able to get the depth-of-field on the bird almost perfect. The Crucifix on the wall behind the bird was only about 3 or 4 feet away.


Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO1600 with 0ev
Focal Length: 50mm

I’ll post more pictures as I look through them. At this time I think I will leave these black and white versions as the final images because I think it highlights the fact that this is a historical area. Let me know what you think.