This past Saturday, I participated in the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk.  There was a walk in the Huntsville area in the small town of Mooresville that I participated in.  I had a great time hanging out with other photographers in this quint little town.

I thought this was a pretty good opportunity to photograph Mooresville.  It is rumored that Mooresville typically makes you purchase a “photo permit” before you can take photos of the town, so I thought I’d use this photowalk as a way to get around that “photo permit” thing.

Unfortunately, for me, I felt totally uninspired Saturday.  I think we’ve all had those days where, for some reason or another, we get stumped creatively.  For me, that day was this past Saturday.

I’m sharing a photo with you that didn’t really turn out like I had envisioned, but it was one of my favorites from the day.  This is simply a front porch of an old house.  I just liked the pews on the porch and it screamed black and white to me.  So, here’s what I came up with….I processed this photo as normal in Lightroom, then took it to Photoshop where I ran the Topaz Adjust plugin on the photo.  I choose the “spicify” preset in the Topaz Adjust plugin.  Next I converted it to black and white using the Nik Silver Efex Pro plugin and used the “hard sepia” preset there.

ISO 100, F/16 @ 1/4 sec and 30mm