@kwind I was thinking tonight as I looked at your photos of your daughters and their friends just how different our 'water' views are, and how differently I look at the difficulty of navigating open sea versus our lake. Yet Lake Michigan is considered one of the most dangerous - especially for sailing -- because of unpredictable shifting winds. Anyway, your images have such drama to them. Our lake seemed so pond-like tonight!
This is great, Taffy. Almost appears hi-key. I'm assuming that's what you mean by the brighter tones. To do this and not wash it out just fascinates me.
Simply brilliant, not only for the challenge, but as an image in it's own right....perfect positioning of the rower, perfect in simplicity and perfect hi-key processing. I don't fave many images nowadays, but this one I must!
@pamknowler@taffy@newbank@sullivar@888rachel@golftragic@ericdibosco Eric may be able to shed light on this. My understanding is that high key and low contrast aren't the same thing technically, because high key has to do with the values of the blacks/whites/grays. But, low contrast in bright conditions -- to me -- is indistinguishable from high key. So, I think that it's more like a venn diagram where some low contrasts are high key shots, but low contrasts using darker shades would not constitute high key. It might be the case (Eric?) that all high key are by definition, also low contrast. If anyone else knows...please weigh in.
I think that it works very well! The low contrast gives the scene such a dream-like quality and I think that it increases the sense of isolation and the expansiveness of the scene - a higher contrast might have detracted from that. I also love the placement of the kayaker, it helps maximize the spaciousness of the lake. I'm sorry this isn't particularly helpful, but there's not a thing I'd change!
@amandal Thanks so much!! The mountains actually are just the south end of High Island -- about 4.5 miles across Lake Michigan from our beach. And High, but not really a mountain. Mostly hills/sand dunes filled with knee high poison ivy! And House of David ruins.
@pamknowler@taffy Oh, I wouldn't really know! I only came across the high-key and low-key terms through my 365 participation. As I understood, high-key means a predominantly white image with little tonal variance, whether low contrast like this one of Taffy's, or with high contrast like this zebra of mine http://365project.org/ericdibosco/365/2014-04-11. Looking at the dictionary definition (dictionary.reference.com) of "having chiefly light tones, usually with little tonal contrast", I'm not so sure that my zebra qualifies, but this one certainly does. But again, I am no expert on this! :)
Really like the b and w, the simplicity but the horizon is slightly off level and I wonder re cropping off some sky so horizon is closer the third line?
@jgpittenger I cropped it a bit and think it works well. You were right -- I didn't believe it wasn't level but in picmonkey, using the grid, it was off a bit. I'm impressed with your eye!
@newbank @sullivar @888rachel @pamknowler @golftragic Hi Mentor Group -- here's my b&w working with very low contrast. Any thoughts?
Fave!
Just a query - you say this is very low contrast and Eric @ericdibosco says perfect Hi-key processing. Are these one and the same?
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@karlow75 This may be one of my favorite comments of all time -- very clever, Kane!
Think this one would benefit?
instant fav