Photo of the Week 48 – Lunar Cross (Black & White)

As you can probably guess by the list of previous photos of the week, I’m not really into black & white photography. However, I do dabble occasionally, and particularly enjoy playing with the channel mixer to get more dramatic and contrasty images. This is my favourite black & white conversion so far. This shot of the Moon over the top of the spire of the Gunne Chapel (AKA the College Chapel) on the St. Patrick’s College Campus (AKA NUI Maynooth South Campus) in Maynooth, Ireland. The black & white conversion was done using the channel mixer in the GIMP (a free cross-platform image editor). It was shot during the day, but made more dramatic by turning the blue channel right down to zero so the sky goes black.

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Camera: Nikon D40

Lens: Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm

Exposure: 1/250 sec

Focal Length: 200mm

Focal Ratio: F22

ISO: 800

Camera Mode: Aperture Priority

Processing: Converted to black & white using the channel mixer in the GIMP