This is an image of an old southern cemetery that on the surface looks to be a simple ‘snap shot’ landscape. And that was the idea behind it. Basically an old style shot of head stones and graves.
These is a lot to see here so developing/finishing darkroom style was needed. I’m an old black and white photographer so I love doing this work.
The soft, almost gray look and feel is done with a Lightroom pre-set created and saved a few years ago.
Dodge and Burn, the old lighten and darken specific areas played a big part here. Bottom of image foreground was lightened.
Parts of the background were lightly burned to expose hidden/dark iron fences, head stones, and other small details.
When shooting color I rarely bother with small details like here. Monochrome images are based on light and shades so it makes a bigger difference. It’s just old school darkroom techniques.
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Charleston, South Carolina.
Wow! Is that Spanish moss in the trees? I love the contrast of the grassy natural landscape against the headstones.
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Spanish Moss and even a Palm tree. There are old wrought iron fences way off in the back. This type of image could only be done using ‘old’ styles. I started shooting using 35mm film in the 1960s. Still love it, just digital now. If the weather holds I’m heading out in the AM to a few small country towns to do B&W all day.
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I recently learned that Spanish Moss is neither Spanish nor moss! I guess it’s a variety of air plant and I can’t remember what region they said it’s from but it was various places but not Spain. Interesting! I love how wispy and drapey it appears. Really nice work.
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The name had something to do with the beards of the original Spanish explorers. Florida, Georgia, and a small part of South Carolina were under Spanish control dating back to the Conquistadors.
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Thanks for sharing.
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Glad you liked it. It’s the kind of shot that has the potential of me being the only one 😂😂
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