This one had been picking at me for a while, and only recently have I found the direction I wanted for this to turnout. Taken with a Nikon D7000 and edited in Lightroom CC.
The Seine River
Category Archives: Black and White
Black and White Photography in the Digital Age
There are any number of reasons for the longevity of black and white images in this new age of digital photography. Artistically speaking, some moments lend themselves to monochrome more than they would in color. Commercial printing costs can be a factor. Sometimes even the weather can make a photoshoot go in a direction you did not intend. For me, it is a case of my early exposure to black and white film photography in the late 1970’s. Continue reading Black and White Photography in the Digital Age
Black and White Photography in the 70’s and 80’s
I got the camera thing going on early in my life. My first camera was a Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110 for my birthday in 1973. I have no photos from that time, but later on I saved enough to purchase a Sears Brand Pentax SLR. I set up my own darkroom and developed my own film, favoring Ilford HP 5 over Kodak’s offerings.
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USS Midway, CV-41 1983
Image of USS Midway during port visit to Olongapo, Republic of the Philippines. 1984 Howard J King
The USS Midway, CV-41, Philippine Islands, 1983. I took this when we were headed out to the Indian Ocean for six months. At the time I was the ships photographer and had access to a fairly good Canon 35mm SLR. Some how I managed to keep track of the negative and scanned it using a slide scanner at a place I used to work in 1996. It was saved on an iOmega zip disk, which sat in storage for many years before surfacing. The USS Midway is now a museum in San Diego.
Restoration
Virginia Wadell Elledge Goodall. Photo restored from deteriorated paper. Photograph taken circa 1925. Restoration by Howard J King
This is something I worked on back in 1997. At least that is what the file date is on the old Iomega zipdisk I found in storage. This picture was taken of my great grandmother in the 1920’s and had suffered in a stack of boxes in a garage for some time. I was using Photoshop 3.0 at the time and it was a time consuming and difficult process to restore to a printable form. I was glad to get a copy of it to my grandfather a few years before he died.
The sad part is, I never met her and never learned her name.
Ghost Town Trail
This was a second run I made at photographing the ruins of Gleeson Arizona’s hospital. The first time, the sky was clear and it left the image with a lot of dead space for what I wanted to do. So when a rainy and cloudy day presented itself, I ended up driving 30 miles out into the Arizona desert to reshoot this photo. Continue reading Ghost Town Trail
Les Invalides
Paris, France
The River Seine, Paris
Siene River, Paris, France. Howard J King 2013
During a week in Paris, I was subject to two kinds of weather; beautiful and raining. The beautiful days were the day I arrived, still punch drunk from jet lag, and the last day as I went through security screening. The rest of the time it was cold and raining. Continue reading The River Seine, Paris
Paris, France
Image of Eiffel Tower partially obscured by clouds. Howard J King 2015
A rainy day in Paris is not conductive to color photography, but you make the best of what you have. I found this scene on the path outside of Les Invalides. I knew immediately this was a black and white shot, classic composition, but that it was going to a be a bit tough getting the tonal range right. I think I achieved just the right amount of contrast, but I toy now and again with this shot, trying to find that sweet spot.
Here is something I always tell people about the Eiffel Tower; no matter how big you imagine it is, it is always bigger when you stand under it.
The Digital Lens 