Shot in black and white in natural light. Doing my own black and white theme for the month of April. Going back to class so to speak... My goal for this week is NOT to do "product" photography - I do NOT want my subject to look like it's floating in air on a washed out white background. My goal is to maintain some detail in the background and still keep a good focus on my subject. It's much harder to do than I remembered!
The human eye can see about 30 shades of gray between black and white - forget about the infamous book, and an average RGB computer screen can detect 256 shades of gray which we can't see anyway. How many shades are there really? Only God knows! I did discover that the bigger the black object is - the harder it is to keep detail in the white background while focusing on the black subject.
Small object (a black leather bow for a shoe) to focus on makes for more detail in the white background. All six objects in one image for tomorrow.
This week is turning out to be an interesting re-learning experience for me. This little theme really was an assignment for John Frair's class so many, many, many years ago. God bless him! I would love a do-over in his class if he was still around.
1st week - only shades of gray in natural light - done
2nd week - black on white in natural light
3rd week - black on black in natural light
4th week - white on black in natural light
5th week - white on white in natural light
@Scrivna - Ross, if you see this - if you have time would you please tell me what the proper tag is for black and white? I've seen "b&w, black&white and black-and-white." If there is no proper tag, I think there should be. Black and white images are all mixed with color using "b&w and black&white." I don't know about anyone else, but I'd really like to use the tag to view all black and white images on 365. I'm sure most folks don't really care. But it would be nice.
@linnypinny Thank you, Lin!
@kjarn LOL! Not much detail to see with that bow. =)
@milaniet Thanks, Milanie!
@30pics4jackiesdiamond Thanks, Jackie!
@wakelys Thanks, Susan!
@dutchothotmailcom Thank you, Esther!