@pamknowler@newbank@888rachel@sullivar@golftragic@taffy Thoughts welcome. Will try to keep up with you all. Daddy now on holiday for two weeks with the boys, so kind off more free time, but also likely to be more busy with them all....
fun shot and composition - not sure I'd call this high contrast - I think high contrast is very dark blacks and white whites with maybe nothing much in between
@newbank@pamknowler@newbank@888rachel@sullivar@golftragic --
This is a relatively high contrast between his face and the rest of it, but I don't think of this as a high contrast shot as the blacks aren't that black and the white isn't that white. I also think we should explore contrast in general this week -- high or low -- just to see different examples and what that do to the feeling of the image.
Love the expression you have captured and I like your unusual composition which provides enough background information. I wouldn't call it high contrast. Yes, it's dark. In the days before 'low key' became artistically OK, we might have said that it is under-exposed. But, there is enough light coming off his face so any longer exposure would lose some of that facial detail. Then we would have had to do some 'dodging' in the dark room to sort it out. The 'low-key' effect is growing on me as I look at it! The dark background doesn't matter that much. I really like this shot.
Regarding shooting or processing in high contrast I tend to do it in processing these days. I rely on capturing a full range of tones in camera so that the image has sufficient detail to select almost any effect I choose.
PS on second thoughts if you had used a longer exposure and burnt out some of that face detail (an extreme case, but it could happen) then you wouldn't get that detail back whatever you did in processing. That's why my usual habit has been to avoid burnt out highlights.
Lovely capture! His face is a picture! This looks a bit dark to me but I don't know if that's high contrast or not. More research needed! I know that I have always taken my shots in Raw and sorted out the feel I want from the shot after in processing. I need to get to grips with working it out when taking the shot. Not much help here - sorry Ruth. @Taffy@888Rachel@sullivar@newbank@golftragic
It's a lovely shot. My first thought was that it's too dark for this subject. But when I studied the shot more closely I think the way you've used contrast has worked very well. Not sure whether or not this is low or high contrast though. Like you, I haven't yet sorted that bit out properly.
I do see a fair amount of contrast between the car on his shirt and the darker background, but I don't know as though it constitutes high contrast (but really, where's the defining line?). I really like the darkness of the photo, the expression on his face, and the composition. It gives it a bit of an....eerie maybe...feel. Also, you take such great portraits of kids! I'm always impressed!
August 10th, 2014
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This is a relatively high contrast between his face and the rest of it, but I don't think of this as a high contrast shot as the blacks aren't that black and the white isn't that white. I also think we should explore contrast in general this week -- high or low -- just to see different examples and what that do to the feeling of the image.
Regarding shooting or processing in high contrast I tend to do it in processing these days. I rely on capturing a full range of tones in camera so that the image has sufficient detail to select almost any effect I choose.
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