As the headline says, I took this black & white photo of Cookie, one of the neighbours’ cats today. The camera was simply set to black and white, no editing whatsoever:
And like always, thanks for viewing.
Cookie from today, ooc b&w image
Cookie, sleeping by my side
Took a snapshot of one of the male neighbours’ cats today, using my phone. Cookie was sleeping on the sofa right next to me, so I thought that would make a nice picture. Converted the photo in-“camera” (in the phone) using Google’s “Black & White Portrait” preset. And that looks like this:
Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023
in-“camera” black & white portrait
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Cookie with “Eiffel” preset, and from raw file
When I got up today, my chair at the computer desk was occupied already. So I let the guy sleep and took some photos of him with my phone, first a black & white “portrait” which I changed to the built-in “Eiffel” preset, and which looks like this:
But I had set the phone’s camera to also save raw .dng files, so I took one of that format and converted it with RawTherapee 5.8 on Linux – looks like this:
Such photos have of course a much larger dynamic range in case you need that – but that takes some space as well… anyway, here you’ll have all the possibilities of your favourite raw converter(s) (I used nothing here, just a conversion without changing anything).
Just to compare, here’s a straight out of camera photo from my Olympus camera, with a Panasonic Leica 25mm/1.4 lens:
Like always, thanks for reading, and for viewing.
Cookie, from today
In-camera black & white conversion, cropped into a 5:4 aspect ratio afterwards:
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Crunchy on my chair today
Took this with a halogen light on:
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“Let’s just hibernate for a minute…”
Crunchy, as my family calls him:
Like always, thanks for viewing. Pssst…
Last and first pictures
Here’s the last sunset of 2022 as I saw it:
And here’s one of the first photos made this year. From today:
The cat photo is also on Flickr where you can have a larger version (more pixels). Like always, thanks for viewing.
Season’s Greetings
Also from one of our small visitors:
Merry Christmas for those who celebrate that, and have a happy and healthy new year as well 🙂
My current screen background…
… is Wilma on my chair, from January of this year. That’s a low light picture, taken with ISO 6400:
On my screen this is of course cropped into the 16:10 format of my monitor.
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Remembering Tuna…
Today, only Crunchy came for some shorter visits – maybe at currently -2°C, cats like to stay home (where I hope they have it nice & warm).
Zuleikha decided years ago that December 5th should/would be Tuna’s birthday, so during this time of the year we often think of her. So at the moment, this is my current screen background again:
I miss my furry friend and favourite “model”…