Black&White
The next step beyond low-key is lithograph; where there is only black and white with no gray tones present. That is to say that some photographs can be made to look like an India ink drawing.
This photograph fits the title Black & White. Through the clever use of light reflection this photo-artist has created a stunning graphic that pops off the page (screen). The composition consists of bisecting the horizontal with white on the left and black on the right. These contrasts are reversed in the water and glass reflections. The vertical is divided in half by the line of glass rims. The photographer has carefully thought out this composition.
You may notice that the right hand glass appears to be leaning toward the edge of the frame. I have checked this out using a vertical line and it is as truly straight as any of the other subjects. It is only an optical illusion cause by the proportion of black to white in the water making your eye see it more heavily weighted on the right side.
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Altering photographs so that they consist of a black and white with an accent of color is a technique that has been around since the beginning photography. Before we were able to reproduce color in photographs images would be hand tinted to give them realism. Since the advent of color prints it has become more of a novelty technique. Today it can be accomplished on the computer using selective masks.
When I look back at products made a hundred years ago I am amazed at the artistic detail that went into some of the most common items; filigree and scroll work on industrial machines, masonry sculptures on buildings high above the street, flowing design of utilitarian products. This was the industrial age, why go to such trouble to make commercial products with such artistic detail? It must be our need to create art and craftsmanship even in the tools we use every day.
Mood is less specific than emotion. It is a feeling, good or bad, that we take away from a situation or a scene. Images often evoke moods in the viewer which may be felt more intensely by some than others. The lighting in a photograph combined with the subject matter set the tone of some compositions in a way that asks the viewer to intemperate the story being presented. Emotions evoke feeling of anger, joy, love, patriotism, etc., but a mood is a subtle tone that covers a broader more indefinable feelings.
Isolating our subject and finding interesting detail within that subject is one way of making a creative photograph. Two photographers will look at the same scene and walk away with entirely different images. This is because the more creative you are the more you define the world around you in your own style. That is to say, a photographer’s style is taking a subject making it their own.
The ghost town of Rhyolite has ghosts. It is the only ghost town I know of where photographers can capture ghosts with their cameras. These phantoms of the desert, about a half dozen as I recall, are the work of a sculptor whose name is unknown to me. They have been there for at least twenty five years and thou they appear to be fragile they have not been damaged by the visiting public.
Boy you have thrown me a curve ball here.
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