For the book club group this week, the focus is on elements of black and white photography within the context of b&w as art. This week's focus is looking at the effect of filters -- red, yellow, blue -- on a b&w image. While this doesn't really convey it well, if you look at it closely (maybe large would help), you can see as it moves from red to yellow to blue, the black tones become darker, while the white remain unchanged. It's subtle in this photo, partly because the snow dominated everything outside today.
@archaeofrog Hi Katie -- I tried uploading to the book club thread on Flickr but it wouldn't accept it. May be something wrong with the way my computer is loading flickr, because it goes up to the step of selecting the photo from my photostream, showing in the column as one of five photos I'm able to post, but the upload button is overlaid by the empty frame for photo 5. Don't know if that makes sense, and it's not a big deal to me, but I didn't want you thinking I wasn't participating there by choice!
Love this! The collage is awesome! I was thinking today that it would be fun to pick a bench that you pass often and take different photos on different days of it...with different scenerios etc...maybe for a collage. I don't know I'm rambling.ahha. Thinking about what to do when my firs year is up I guess. This just made me think of it again. Love it BTW!
I can see those shifts in the black. I tried playing with those sliders a bit with my bw today too and was surprised to see the change in the cat's nose.
I love this collage and that bench is beautiful covered by snow. Makes a great study too, even thou the difference isn´t that evident here but i love how white the snow looks
This is no 365 in this album Taffy. It seems funny that you have snow when we are having such wonderful weather. I like the theme you have chosen here as it works well for black and white. I have only today seen the post about the Book Club and really want to participate, I read about abstract and fine art but am now confused as you talk about filters, which I actually did use when editing my shot. I am having difficulty getting the book, not really sure how long it will take to come as I am going to have to order on the internet, any help would be gratefully received.
@taffy Taffy if it can help, it happens to my photos too, especially when they are diptychs or, in your case , triptychs. I couldn't upload them. And recently I'm having a lot of problems just uploading my "ordinary" photos. Maybe because I tend to upload a whole bunch of 30 and more photos...
This reminds me of skills from my past, primarily using red and yellow filters to alter the density of clouds on B&W film. This is an interesting study for me.
@taffy Hey Taffy, I think I know what you're saying, and I think I've had that problem before. It usually happens if I was zooming in on the screen of my browser (as in, on my Windows computer, clicking ctrl + or ctrl - ). If you zoom out again ( - ) it should fix it. Or try a different browser.
Hope this helps!!