Author: Mark Isaac

  • Buildings in the sun

    Buildings in the sun

    So, here I am at the Flying Cloud Academy Vintage Dance week hosted at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) and playing truant from most of the day’s exhausting dance workshops. I suspect that the campus was first developed with new buildings in the early 70’s. At least, the brutalist architecture leads me to suspect this. Reminiscent…

  • Shades and Yellow

    Shades and Yellow

    In mid-June 2022 I accompanied my wife, Erica, to the Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance week in Cincinnati, OH. We stayed at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) and I had opportunity to shoot photos there on several days. The weather for the week was generally hot & rather humid with a couple of days that…

  • Examples of Fuji RAW processing to Monochrome

    Examples of Fuji RAW processing to Monochrome

    Example # 1 Here are screenshots of the settings used : First of all I cropped so that the horizon was on a third horizontal. I pulled back the Highlight in HDR to accentuate the clouds. I added some clarity and structure to bring out the detail. In the Color Editor I darkened the Blue…

  • Processing Fuji RAW in Capture One

    Processing Fuji RAW in Capture One

    to Monochrome output In the past four or five years I switched from Nikon (D600)+Panasonic (GX-7) to Fuji (XT-2, XT-30). There will be another posting about this switch. I have also used Adobe Lightroom for quite q while and became accustomed to its user interface and method of working. But on certain photo subjects I…