I have recently been obsessed with black and white imagery. This isn’t as simple as just pressing a button and changing the image. It involves a process that allows for much artistic license, it is often referred to as fine art.
New Tools
One of the things I like about photography and post processing is that sometimes you learn a new trick or tool and it opens new doors for your creativity. I discovered Gradient Maps in photoshop and have found a couple of interesting places to use it. This is using an orange gradient map and I like it. I’m not great with colours but under the correct circumstances I will try out some things.
As always, comments always welcome.
Photo of the Week #234
The colour version of this image hung in our livingroom for some time.I liked it initially but it didn’t last. I began to look at it and pick it apart, find more and more things that I didn’t like about the photograph. Sometimes that happens, you have to live with art for a bit I find, then you find out what you really think. In this case, the colours weren’t sitting well with me and I eventually got to the point that I needed to take it down. Judi had a great shot she made in Alberta that took it’s place. :)
Recently, I began playing around with the image as a black and white and it began to speak to me once again. If the colours were what I felt didn’t work, take it away and see what you’re left with. In this case I think the colour was standing in the way of the true interest in the photograph.
Comments and opinions always welcome.
Photo of the Week #230
When I first started hanging around on the east coast, I wanted to document some of the current fishing community. Remember those old postcards of the fishermen in the colourful slickers and Sou’wester hats? They obviously don’t dress that way, that is if they ever did. :) This is called “Ship Shape” and depicts a local lobster fisherman hosing off the deck after a successful trip out to fish some mackerel. Mackerel is a common bait fish used for the lobster traps in the spring and they also like to have a feed of them now and then too so it’s a valuable fish there. This photo was made in October so the lobster season was long gone for that year so these mackerel were headed to the freezer for the next April when the season would come around once more.
Photo of the Week #211
This is an older image from 2015, that seems like a lifetime ago now. I’m missing Nova Scotia a little right now. I have to admit, I”m a little sad that we sold our house there, it just didn’t fit into the plan any longer and an interested buyer came along at the right time. We would drive by this place countless times going back and forth to the house, it was on the highway in. This particular morning the light was magnificent in my opinion and I was able to capture this. I consider this a portfolio piece.
