I love black and white. It has an old school soul that is difficult to replicate with color. It strips the photograph down to it's bare essence of line, form, shades and content.
Picture Title:
"LOOKING FOR JILL"
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sean_mcr wrote:
But then you look at the work of Joel Meyoerowitz, colour is a very important aspect of his work, his colour harmony is amazing when you consider that he's shooting the street where the colours are so diverse it's stunning to see such use of colour. It really depends on how well you can use colour. If it does not aid the photograph it should go
http://www.in-public.com/JoelMeyerowitz/image/1188
genghis45 wrote:sean_mcr wrote:
But then you look at the work of Joel Meyoerowitz, colour is a very important aspect of his work, his colour harmony is amazing when you consider that he's shooting the street where the colours are so diverse it's stunning to see such use of colour. It really depends on how well you can use colour. If it does not aid the photograph it should go
http://www.in-public.com/JoelMeyerowitz/image/1188
I dig Meyerowitz' pics--thanks for the link. The "human density" effect that he created with the first photo, I tried to make with this black and white picture. This was taken with a 55mm lens. I did a ton of dodging and burning in this image.
Picture Title:
"WELCOME TO MANHATTAN"
sean_mcr wrote:
Yes scott you can only really get that look with a short lens, it's says you're there amongst it, living and breathing the same air. I know that zooms can be fun. but there's very few street photographers that have made there name with a tele
sheila wrote:OK. I'll bite
A recent shoot I did for an aged care centre. Care to comment anyone?
Cheers
Sheila
jellophoto wrote:Very interesting question Scott. I particularly like black and white and especially duotones. I think it does lend drama to a scene. In this multicoloured world I often find myself visually overloaded by the colour data in a picture and intentionally strip out the colour on a less is more basis. Having said that I think the success of a colour image is largely dependant on the combination of colours. Certain colours just jar when in the same image, whereas some contrasting colours do work very well.
I also take the view that you can often improve an image after it is shot by stripping away the colour data, which is contrary to the view of many of the posts on these forums, but then beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Regards John
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