aleone63 wrote:
Good day Hedgehogs... Today's challenge is all about black and white. It is something I continue to work on.
Black and white helps to learn the basics without getting too distracted. Black and white focuses the attention on form, shading, pattern, and other graphic concepts, to give them an unusual quality with tone and hue.
With a clear view toward graphics, composition, and design, the photographer can concentrate on:
How contrast creates lines and how lines lead the eye or psychologically affect the viewer by curving, lying flat, diagonal, or vertical.
How shapes or lines make a pattern and how shape with texture gives an object form.
How highlights compete for attention and dark tones create an important negative space.
Many artists prefer black and white because it causes the photographer and the viewer to see the world in a way that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Ansel Adams known for his black and white photography once said Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Here are a few examples to get us started. I can't wait to see what you come up with. Happy snapping! :-)
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Good Morning Hogs ...what drew me to my teacher was his skill in black and white...i am so drawn to it but have a long ways to go...here are a few recent ones...