Photos of the month: October 2024

This is a special photo for two reasons. Firstly it’s one of the first I took with my new Sony RX1000 VII. It’s a powerful pocket camera and I’ve bought it to fill the gap between my DSLR and my phone: less obtrusive than the former and higher quality images than the latter. So far I’m impressed.

Secondly it’s the first photo I’ve published where I’ve used post-processing to go further that simply tidying up a photograph. I’ve picked out the subjects of this rather boring photo and highlighted them by making the background black and white. It seems to work nicely.

So here’s the details: it was taken with my Sony RX100 VII 1/125th at f4.5 and ISO 640 and 109mm on the Zoom. To get the end result I’ve simply desaturated the background 100%