More Red, Less Green..

So when I first got my camera I played with its black and white mode.  These photos show how the red and green "filters" work.  Let's start with the original black and white.

No photoshop, these are all direct from the camera.

So this second one is with the green filter turned on.  So we get to see all the red orange text on the trailer.  And the cab becomes paler.  (Come on, we all remember this one from about 40 years ago, we all wanted it).

The third picture is with the red filter on, all the reds pale away.  The red filter also makes the green darker, almost black.

For those of you who don't remember this Matchbox classic, here is the original.

Risk Cavalry

Ever played Risk?  

Ever thought the play figures were a little monochromatic?

Me too, so I had to paint up a set.  These are a couple of cavalry that I painted up.  On and off for the last year I've been painting up a complete army.  It was long work, and I don't think I'll be doing any more though.

Funny FX

I like this one. It's hand held, obviously, low ISO film speed, sodium lighting.
The top layer is clear enough we can see what it is, and the blur adds a thickness to the sign.

All pretty good.
Look at it closely. It's almost as if there were a strobe light going, there appear to be "slices" of sign, as shown in the detail below. Now the lighting was high pressure sodium as far as I can tell, you know, regular parking lot lighting. I guess there is an oscillation in the brightness going with the AC power delivery. I just wasn't expecting it in a night shot like this.

It could also be the camera processed several samples of image in the fraction of a second it took this photo. So the question is, is this a camera artifact, or an environmental influence? Either way around I like it, just not on all my night shots