View others' black & white portraits with envy, I was always interested the story behind the b&w photos. How could them tell their story without color.
"High key portraiture is synonymous with the contemporary trend for the minimalist, clutter-free style made popular by family studio. Characterized by over exposure and desaturated colours. This style is bright, breezy and optimistic." /Ref: High and Lows By Josie Reavely (2010 June). Advanced Photoshop ISSUE65 Pg.60
Look at this bright smile, it will lit up the world!
"Low key portraiture is darker, more brooding and moodier. It’s marked by an underexposed and high contrast look, this type of lighting works well with more somber imagery. Background tend to be dark with subjects often fully or partially silhouetted, with key features picked out by one key light. The dodge and burn tools are great for making selective adjustments to specific areas of your images. Use the drop-down range menu to make adjustments to the shadow , midtones and highlights individually." /Ref: High and Lows By Josie (2010 June). Advanced ReavelyPhotoshop ISSUE65 Pg.62
Giggling in the dark. Have you notice the label on my face? That the pass of Auckland war museum.
It's interesting to doing something on my own photo right after learn them, but the original photo quality is poor, so it doesn't turn out really well.
So let have a look at some real photographers' portrait works.
Low key works with some blurry to make the portrait even better.
/Ref: E M Photography will be returning your wonderful c's photostream (February 17, 2009). Retrieved June 17, 2010 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/elegant_memories/3285701898/
High key: Bright and refresh.
/Ref: Carolina in Black & White by Brian Dowling (July 26, 2009). Retrieved June 17, 2010 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridow/3755287980/
This portrait seems combine the merits of high and low keys. Really nice lighting set up.
/Ref:Julie in Black & White by Brian Dowling (August 27, 2009). Retrieved June 17, 2010 fromhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bridow/3858999075/
Oh no I previously wrote a comment about this, but didn't wait for the security code thing grrr it's annoying!
ReplyDeleteI like this blog, it shows the difference in contrast you can achieve with black and white photography, and how much it changes the emotion to a photograph.
Film black and photography shows excellent examples of contrast in black and white photography.
I sometimes think film photography is better for black and white, you often get not such a good level of contrast or quality on digital,
I feel as though you value the image more if you process it on film by yourself.
Some excellent black and white film photographers are:
Ansel Adams
Francesca Woodman
Diane Arbus
Annie Lebovitz
(plus billions other from Auck Library)
But what do you think Emily?
Do you think films out-dated?
For me, films is out-dated as I am not a perfessional photographer, I haven't realize how much better the film photographer could be.
ReplyDeleteMy first camera is an Olympus film one. I always had to be prepared really well to make sure I get the nice scenery.
I think some high-quality digital cameras can achieve the same result now in an easier and faster way. Do you think so? Regarding there are little people still use film cameras, I think it's already out-dated.
Thanks for the examples of some exellent black and white film photographers. I will look through their works and compare with some digital photographers to figure out the differences.
Can you give me some advices of doing research? which is the best way to looking for? You know google is never good enough.