Without color: Week 25 photos

Black and white is a popular medium, essential for certain styles, although colour photography is now the norm. This has some advantages if you want to emphasise a specific aspect of the composition. Avoiding colour can help you better understand the behaviour of light and learn how to make the best use of it.

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men in short skirts

“The photo shows the Swiss Simeon Brugger, who was the winner of the ‘caber toss’ at the Highland Games in Nürtingen. I had to decide whether I should take a long shot of the throw of the approximately six-metre-long tree trunk or focus on the athlete. The concentration and tension on Brugger’s face, his impressive presence in the kilt made the decision easy for me,” says photographer Martin Ruopp about his intention behind the photo. men in short skirts,

A successful portrait that focuses on the people and their passion for the sport.

stairs

Clear construction lines are reflected in the picture stairs Complemented by shadows by Nils Schulte-Jokiel (Nilssch). This creates a pattern that is an impressive composition in itself. However, the photographer places a person in the image to break up the clear composition, an element that draws the viewer’s attention. The photo excellently illustrates how light and shadow can work through difficult contrasts in black and white photography.

“The picture was taken on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne. As is often the case, I shot the picture in bright sunlight, so that light and shadow create strong contrasts. The choice of perspective reduces the stairs to an abstract pattern. A person helps to create a fixed point in the picture to create atmosphere and context,” he says himself.

Anya

M. Schröder was successful in his portraiture AnyaTo focus on the model’s gaze. Facial expressions indicate a serious mood, which is supported by dark clothing and accessories. Modern elements such as piercings and earrings emphasize this, combined with a bit of Victorian style through clothing and umbrellas. Soft lighting illuminates the model’s face, while brighter light from behind is blocked by the umbrella.

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Wild pear

A laugh that’s contagious. The childlike joy of pears Wild pear The viewer is simply infected by Alexander Brand.

He himself says: “The motif arose from the situation. We were driving to the maple fields in Austria when we had to take a short snack break. I found the scenery extremely picturesque. Even more, my son Edgar felt the indescribable sweet delicacy of his pears – a moment for eternity. As soon as I looked at the picture, I was struck by a kind of Wild West romance: the shallow, rippling stream and the high mountains in the background, the rugged texture of the woods further on, as well as Edgar’s favorite sweater from the cartoon series Yakari and of course his “radiant smile”.

Portrait with a difference

Gallery photographer Cat Food shows us a slightly different picture. His photo of a horse with a 35 millimeter lens creates a perspective that impresses with its expressive contrasts as well as soft gradations of gray tones. Due to the short focal length and the associated slight optical distortion, the animal’s head appears large and fills a large part of the image. The grasses add another element to the shot that makes the scene feel natural.

dandelion

“Since there were a lot of dandelions to be found a few weeks ago, I often went out with my son to look for dandelions and took some pictures of them. The photo here was also taken, but it was spontaneous and not pretentious. He had said “I had a lot of fun sliding down the mountains at a construction site and collecting dandelions at the same time. We tied the loot in our backpacks and then had fun taking photos and always took our favorite motifs with us,” Stephan told us son (Fidepix) about his recording dandelion,

Slightly more exposed parts of the image complement slightly darker parts nicely, like the grass out of the way and the landscape it creates.

Love for journey

In the photo we are looking at an airplane from below against a white background Love for journey by Donato Cuoio (don_cuoio). He describes his creation as follows: “This (…) I took the photo a few kilometres from Frankfurt Airport. As soon as I took the photo, I knew that I wanted to keep this photo very minimal. The image editing was also minimal: aligning, cropping, converting to black and white and adding motion blur. As a counterpoint to wedding photography, I have been trying to use my creativity in digital image editing and image design for some time. Here I can let my imagination fly and transform images in a way that goes beyond pure photography.” The intention and the implementation are certainly successful.

You can find an overview of all this week’s photos here:

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