First, many thanks to your responses to yesterday's images of Danbo and of my experiments with the snow-covered bench. Danbo's safari was a moderate success -- not many people in the wild, but they made it back fine, but a little cold.
This series was created from a single photograph, taken of red railings and cement stairs in the newer section of Chicago's Chinatown. Junko @jyokota and Daniel @danielwsc and Annette @anwan and I had a fun (if frozen fingers and toes) day meeting for lunch, photographing the parade, snacking on egg tarts at a bakery, and following the dragons as they visited the shops after the parade. For this shot, I cropped the image to focus on the railings, then processed in Silver Efex using the low key preset, adjusting only the color filter -- blue, yellow, red. This week's focus is on b&w as art. Learning how blue filters create the greatest contrast and darkest tones.
Main album: http://365project.org/taffy/365/2014-02-02
Very well done! I love how you created this pattern by isolating the diagonal elements of the photo. The differences are indeed subtle, but noticeable when enlarged.
Love them together like this, great repetition of forms. It´s an interesting study too, there´s so little difference (at least seen in this screen) but the slight difference in contrast and light is interesting.
Awesome composition, love the triptych of repeating diagonal lines, and patterns, excellent framing too! Cool processing! Super focus!
I am inspired to do the book club! I get the book on the 7th!
I like the effect of repeating the image to make a triptych and your exercise of changing the colour filters, overall I love the image - and I love the explanation.
I'm curious about your observation regarding the blue filter, do you think it creates the greatest contrast and darkest tones because the railing is red or that it does that anyway?
@pennyp Blue always makes for a stronger and darker contrast, at least in all the images I've tried. This had red railings and I'd thought I'd see a huge contrast because of that, when I used the red filter, but it wasn't much different than the yellow one in the end -- I can see it more clearly on my computer than on 365, but it's not a big difference.
@taffy I think think this exercise is really interesting. I might give it a go myself, I sometimes try the different colour filters in Silver Efex and there are more than the blue, yellow and red ones, I have used them from time to time to good effect. Watch my space!
I was playing around with a similar concept myself today. I know my p & s is limited in what controls I have while shooting, but it's interesting to see how filters effect the shot in post-processing. Great job on choosing a good subject and putting all the nuances together in a collage.
I'm with you on the blue for this one, but I'm noticing that the blue filter actually washes out blue skies, which seems anti-intuitive to me. I think different ones work better for different colors.
Love the repetition of the pattern - well spotted to isolate this section and very clever to show it as a cryptic using the different filters. I have used the different filters in silver Efex and sometimes it can make a huge difference but not always.
Thanks for a GREAT day today. I hope you've warmed up!! Will tag you in the other photo too.
I am inspired to do the book club! I get the book on the 7th!
I'm curious about your observation regarding the blue filter, do you think it creates the greatest contrast and darkest tones because the railing is red or that it does that anyway?