Black and White Book Club 12

I helped out a friend today whose car is in the shop and brought her out to do her food shopping while I did mine. Ooooooh! A whole new supermarket to take surreptitious photos!

I'm continuing to explore texture in black and white and the lovely GREEN (I remember that color...sigh...) cabbages, freshly misted, really caught my eye as a potential black and white shot.

Fiddled back and forth with this quite a bit after converting the color to monotone. I finally settled on not using the contrast after conversion but tweaking the highlights and shadows in order to bring out the contrast. I also used a blue filter in the initial conversion.

[Bev]

Nice shot, Ann! Great texture and detail. Love the water drops... You can make anything look so artistic and beautiful!! Well done :)

[Kerri]

Great b&w

[Sally Ings]

I like the lighting. Very cool subject

[Keith Porteous]

Lovely. I can't manage to make mundane items look this good, well done!

[Susan Golding]

Great subject for B&W, I like the shadows and highlights.

[alia_801]

Lots of cool patterns there! I like the light too.

[Laura]

Great tones.

[Yao RL]

I love the contrast between the top layer cabbage and bottom layer.

[Dione Giorgio]

Lovely looking cabbages.

[Nicole Campbell]

Great choice for your photo today Ann

[Carole Imes]

Looks so nice and fresh. Great shot!

[W.MARK HATCH]

great shot, love the water drops!

[bkb in the city]

It is amazing seeing what ordinary objects look like in black and white

[PamSnaps1]

Love the details and textures in your photograph! Perhaps you could do a series and present them to the store for next Christmas : )

[Daisy Miller]

Great BW shot. The lines and the textures of the cabbages came out well in black and white.

[Sharon]

Nice lighting for the grocery store!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@prttblues @kerristephens @salza @kporte @windridge @alia_801 @la_photographic @yaorenliu @sangwann @nicolecampbell @cimes1 @mhatch @bkbinthecity @potsbypam @daisymiller @twinsplusone

Thank you everyone! I so appreciate each comment but tonight instead of thanking all one by one, I think I'll visit and comment on your shots instead!

[Allison Williams]

The water drops look fabulous in B&W.

[Lisa Poland]

Great texture!

[Rick Schies]

A different look,

[Alexandra DG]

these look fresh!!! :)

[Jennifer]

Very cleverly done, it really works well.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@allie912 @homeschoolmom @digitalrn @axika @jesperani

Thank you Allison, Lisa, Rick, Alexandra, and Jennifer!

[MaryBeth Dailey]

This is so great in b and w! I would have never guessed!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@espyetta Thanks Marybeth! It was tough to convert it to black and white because the green was such a nice thing to see after all the bleak and dreary gray and white days we've been having!

[Jolene]

Beautiful! I can imagine it would have been tough converting to B&W after viewing this in color. . . but seeing it with my fresh eyes, the absence of color allows the texture to truly sing!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@appleblossom Thank you Jolene! I really appreciate your comment and insight!

[Dakotaburns]

Very cool composition.