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B&W Country Side
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Hello All.
Been a while since I posted images here. I’d been working hard on my exhibition work and then to a lesser extent had some, personal issues I had to resolve, but I’m back and better now so, anyway back on topic.
Over the last year or two I’ve become obsessed with black and white, preferring it (much to peoples annoyance) over color. I try and work all my images as black & white and see everything when I’m shooting it as black and white, bar the odd time when the color is to nice or to important to remove. So since I’m from the country I decided to document around me in black and white, diverging slightly from my exhibition work but staying along the same lines.This is only a few of what I’ve finished so far.
Hope you enjoy and any feedback is of course welcome.
some very striking images there, i like them a lot.
i have a similar fondness for black and white although i do think colour has its place also and im coming around to using it more… I am often bemused by many peoples response to monochrome. it seems in many cases that it carries a sense of ‘pastness’ and can often be perceived as being historical rather then contemporary.
Isabella wrote:
some very striking images there, i like them a lot.
i have a similar fondness for black and white although i do think colour has its place also and im coming around to using it more… I am often bemused by many peoples response to monochrome. it seems in many cases that it carries a sense of ‘pastness’ and can often be perceived as being historical rather then contemporary.
I think your pretty much on the ball there. I shot a wedding a while back (worst thing I ever did) and I wanted to present all the images, edited, in black and white afterwards, as well as some shots I did in film, they wanted them outright in color, on the day, over a TV at the reception. I said “No way!” did not get much love there. But I did it their way and then I made copies of all the work black and white and when I did show them it, they LOVED the black and white more then the color. I think people turn their nose up at black and white as old school and colordigitalinyourfacenowfacebookupload is the way of the future, but I think black and white has more of a presence now then ever. If you can shoot well in black and white and get a mood in your image it can speak volumes more then a color image, I find color distracting, not all the time, but even when I use color I look dumbed down color, not muted but, faded, I just had bold colors, always have.
Thank you for the compliment to, I’m finally starting to love my own images, took a long time, and alot of deleting :)
Niallman wrote:
Very atmospheric shots. Nicely done :)
Thank you. Prefer minimal and atmospheric then complicated :)
Nice to have you back Dave, I love black and white personally, but rarely convert many of my
images, mostly because I am not very good at it! I think you are right with minimal, much more impact
I think, the bird shots are really interesting, if they were in colour I don’t think they would get a second
look! But the mono brings out the drama in them IMO, nice set I particularly like the cracked earth, such
texture in it.shutterbug wrote:
Nice to have you back Dave, I love black and white personally, but rarely convert many of my
images, mostly because I am not very good at it! I think you are right with minimal, much more impact
I think, the bird shots are really interesting, if they were in colour I don’t think they would get a second
look! But the mono brings out the drama in them IMO, nice set I particularly like the cracked earth, such
texture in it.Thanks :) i seen you comment on the odd one of my uploads on flickr which was much appreciated. I just havent had the time to post images here in so long, its good to be back.
I got really back into black and white when I got into college and ended up using black and white film more then my digital for the most part. Since then I’ve been trying to emulate that same feeling in digital by converting in RAW and then tweaking here and there to get them matching as closely as possible to the film I use (Kodak Tmax400).
Ive become weirdly obsessed with birds, especially in flight and in flocks. I’ll go out nearly every evening and wait for them to start headed home to roost trying to get a nice, clear and clean shot.
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