Tag: Black & White

52 Week Smartphone Challenge : Week 34 : Colour without Colour

Tell a colourful story, but do it in black and white.

Yesterday Bhavana and I enjoyed a relaxing morning on the grass under the trees at Carriage Farm for Flounder Brewing’s beer garden. We drank a few half-pints of Flounder’s ales and shared a Margherita pizza from AMA Pizza e Cucina. I had my Fuji X-T2, XF27mmF.28, XF16-55 R LM WR, and a rented XF80mmF2.8 R LM WR OIS macro lens in my bag, but I always end up with a few iPhone 11 Pro images as well.

I don't remember what was going on, but I am playing on the meaning of the word colourful. One meaning that I found was "full of interest; lively and exciting".

I don't think any colourful language was exchanged with whomever; these two were conversing. I do know that red is the characteristic colour of Italian sports cars and the table cloth, truck and baseball cap in this photo are full of it.

theonlyd800inthehameau found the most colourful flower and then made it black and white.

This post submitted for my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.

Isolation Photo Project, Day 88

I had a rough day. Thinking and focusing were hard. I made a lot of mistakes. I'm not sure but I think I need to get more sleep.

Several years ago, too long for me to recall, I planted a set of lily bulbs in the garden at the front of the house. Every year they grow and bloom and put on a show of red-orange flowers. I think they are commonly called fire lily, or amaryllis. But today, I want to see black and white.

Submitted as part of the 100DaysToOffload project.

52 Week Smartphone Challenge: Week 20: Negative Space

I love watching clouds. Sometimes I think I photograph landscapes because of the clouds. It seems all challenge participants decided to look to the sky this week. I like Amy's interpretation of this week's theme. TheOnlyD800inthehameau looked to the skies for drama finding a moody cloud formation.

I vaguely understood the term "negative space", thinking it was the "blank areas" of an image, Wikipedia informed me further.

Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.

Ok. Wait. What? "Negative space" can be the "real" subject of an image? I hadn't captured anything like this. I had three pictures from the week, which I thought represented my interpretation of "negative space". But which to choose for the challenge. The boring one of a water bottle or the more interesting one of my wife? Maybe I'm cheating a little, but I am submitting both. I think the image of the botted water is closer to the description from Wikipedia. Still, I think the portrait of my wife, giving me her best "do I have to do this" look is more interesting.

15 May 2020 | Apple iPhone 11 Pro | iPhone 11 Pro back dual camera 6mm f/2

I captured my choices for the weekly challenge using the native iOS camera app. The app has a portrait mode which is sometimes doesn't get it right. It uses multiple back cameras on the iPhone 11 Pro including the 6mm f/2 (which Apple calls the Telephoto lens due to its 51mm full-frame field of view) and the 4.25mm ƒ/1.8 (26mm FF). Together with software algorithms, a "bokeh" effect is achieved. I used Kevin Mullin's "Base Film" and "Newspaper" black and white preset.

What do you think?

Submitted for my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.