The Look
The perfectly wrinkled face, the morning sun peeking over the mountains; moments come and pass leaving only pictures as a record that for one second I was Amazed.
David and Arianna Shirk, 2004-2005. To contact us, send an email to shirkdavid@hotmail.com or leave a comment. Thanks for visiting!
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Shot with a homemade lightbox and a blue background, worked on the flowers in Channel Mixer, then, adjusted the hue for a sepia tone.
I've been thinking about B&W lately - why I've been more and more attracted to it. Photography is light captured on film. Vision is light reflected off subjects to the eyes. The essence of seeing is light.
In monotone photography, all you see is light and dark. There is no distraction of color - just the range from black to white in different shades of gray. Ansel Adams used a system which categorized the different shades of gray from black and white on a scale of 1 to 10. Here you see that - absolute black background, midtones on the stem, highlights on the petals, resulting in form, texture, and personality.
Not that color is wrong, but B&W is more basic, simple, and essential.
The more photographs I make, the more I gravitate toward it.
so lovely.
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