107: Muddy Stones

This pile of muddy stones in the garden was nothing special, but I felt it was a good subject to play around with in post-processing. It had plenty of detail and not much colour, so I reckoned it best to make it black & white and give it an S-shaped luminance curve to bring out the texture.
I had a busy weekend of film shoots and meetings away from home, so not much time to take photos and post them. This one was taken one day late [and posted two days late,] but sequentially it's in order.

Settings: f/5, 1/800, ISO 100, P-FA 50mm.
Alterations: monochrome, cropping, sharpening & luminance curves.

095: Carbon Liths

Our electric fire pretends to be a coal fire. But these chunks are definitely not coal - I think they're graphite.
Today they're some kind of jagged rock formation. Tomorrow, back to being fake coal. What a glamorous existence they have...

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 9mm extension, 1/4 flash, foil reflectors.

082: Beach Brick Biscuit

A little fragment of brick found on the beach at Torbay. Its accompanying stony mortar almost makes it resemble two-thirds of a biscuit sandwich, albeit one washed smooth by decades of sand and surf.
I doubt any biscuit is that resilient.

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm M42, 17mm extension, 1/4 bounce flash, glass base, white relflectors at both sides, top and under glass.