Continuing today with this week's B&W February theme - the exploration of the various types of light we might encounter in our photography. We all know that the harsh shadows created by direct sunlight can be very difficult to control in portrait or architectural images; but conversely, a landscape or seascape beneath a perfect azure sky can make a stunning image. Stunning that is if you're shooting in colour - in B&W you end up with an expanse of dull grey sky!
This image, taken not far from home is of a pretty little private fishing lake and the reflections of the perimeter trees with a perfect blue sky behind them looked lovely in colour... not so much in B&W. The scene was too nice not to capture and I ended up by relieving the boredom of the uniformly grey sky by applying a graduated filter in processing - I could have done the same thing in camera except that my graduated filters were in my camera bag back at home!
lovely landscape shot... i particularly like the reflections of the trees... yeah... deep blue sky can be challenging in black and white... but indeed, graduated filter works well... as does rendering it in black as i see you've done for your next shot :)
@northy Thanks Mira - I tried a black sky with this one but It caused strong edge glows around the trees that I couldn't lose so I went with the graduated filter.
