Canning Dock at Blue Hour

[Gerald Murphy]

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Lovely light and colours Gerald 🙂

[Gerald Murphy]

Thank you, Dahlia

[Gerald Murphy]

[Gerald Murphy]

The new photo shows Canning Dock at Blue Hour turning Black and White. I don’t like the halo around the clock face – it was there in the colour photo but it looks worse in monochrome. I’m wondering if it’s an artefact caused by the f/16 choice of focal length which is otherwise effective in causing the starbursts around the street lights!!

[beth]

i like the color version the best, but prefer the crop of the second.  the halo around the clock face isn’t a big deal, but you have some odd black halos around the buildings in the b&w.  otherwise i like the contrasty tones in the b&w.

i don’t think the halo around the clock face is caused by the aperture.  it’s likely just the light from the clock face bleeding onto the surrounding wall.

[Gerald Murphy]

Beth. I’ve only just caught up with your helpful comment. I hadn’t noticed the halos around the black buildings in the b&w. They weren’t there in the colour. Maybe something I caused when I desaturated the colours in Lightroom.

[beth]

they’re there in the color version too.  but the different blue tones help hide them.  without the color they stand out more.

[Gerald Murphy]

I revisited this place this week for the Liverpool River of Light festival – lots of colour to see in the various buildings and installations but, while there, I had another go at the Canning Dock. I stuck with colour because it was night rather than blue hour and there was lots of colour to see.

[Patrick]

Nice shot Gerald , well worth your revisit mate.

[Gerald Murphy]

Thanks a lot for that encouragement.

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