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06/13/2003 12:46:37 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by carsten:
I´m often told that my b&w pictures are too dark. Like this. Maybe they are "black on black low key"? |
I often hear the same; i guess i like dark images and i often deliberately bring the curve down in post processing. Btw, i like your chain image and ditto on scab-lab's. They are like open-ended movies where a lot is left for the viewer's imagination.
From reading this thread, am i to believe that Lightdance, as per the link in Yanik's post, would not actually qualify? Well, i wouldn't care whether it meets the challenge or not - it would get a 10 from me anyway ;) |
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06/13/2003 12:59:33 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by Journey:
From reading this thread, am i to believe that Lightdance, as per the link in Yanik's post, would not actually qualify? Well, i wouldn't care whether it meets the challenge or not - it would get a 10 from me anyway ;) |
Huh. Why wouldn't it? It looks nice and low-key to me.
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06/13/2003 01:05:33 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by eloise:
Originally posted by Journey:
From reading this thread, am i to believe that Lightdance, as per the link in Yanik's post, would not actually qualify? Well, i wouldn't care whether it meets the challenge or not - it would get a 10 from me anyway ;) |
Huh. Why wouldn't it? It looks nice and low-key to me. |
It isnt Black on Black. The model isnt black.
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06/13/2003 01:10:08 PM · #54 |
I think this is why, on this occasion, we need a formal clarification. "Black on black" is not necessarily the same thing as "low-key" as I understand it, and yet both terms are used in the contest title and description.
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06/13/2003 01:17:05 PM · #55 |
I'd second that. Originally posted by Jak:
I think this is why, on this occasion, we need a formal clarification. "Black on black" is not necessarily the same thing as "low-key" as I understand it, and yet both terms are used in the contest title and description. |
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06/13/2003 01:20:41 PM · #56 |
Dont forget that people who didnn't get the chance to enter might not have read the description, and will be voting purely on the "Black on Black" challenge title.
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06/13/2003 01:30:05 PM · #57 |
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06/13/2003 01:47:20 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by Konador:
Originally posted by eloise:
Originally posted by Journey:
From reading this thread, am i to believe that Lightdance, as per the link in Yanik's post, would not actually qualify? Well, i wouldn't care whether it meets the challenge or not - it would get a 10 from me anyway ;) |
Huh. Why wouldn't it? It looks nice and low-key to me. |
It isnt Black on Black. The model isnt black. |
No she isn't black. But she is NAKED. 'nuff said! - 10
--BB |
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06/13/2003 01:48:40 PM · #59 |
Shot far too early to enter (April 24th), but it might provide useful ideas for some other folks:
//dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=24732
Don't click through if you don't like looking at 'outtakes'. :->
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06/13/2003 01:55:41 PM · #60 |
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06/13/2003 01:57:13 PM · #61 |
now note, just because it says no editing rules in effect, doesn't mean you have to make some kind of nutty digital art extravaganza :P
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06/13/2003 01:58:51 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by zerocusa:
Does this qualify? |
Speaking only personally, I'd grade the central portion of it (if it were just that shot) quite well, but the other two not so much. Their brights look too bright, to me, and too many of them.
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06/13/2003 02:01:27 PM · #63 |
Cool, lets dodge the hell out of bright photo. :)
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06/13/2003 02:16:16 PM · #64 |
Don't you mean "burn" the hell out of a bright photo...? Unless I'm thinking backwards, dodging would brighten it...
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Cool, lets dodge the hell out of bright photo. :) |
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06/13/2003 02:19:08 PM · #65 |
You are right, I am the one with the brain wrongly connected. End of the week. Thank Gods.
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06/13/2003 02:31:50 PM · #66 |
I'm hoping you don't mind, but I'm going to print this post out and frame it. Being right is so unusual for me that I think this should be captured and mounted somewhere in our home! :)
Originally posted by Azrifel:
You are right, I am the one with the brain wrongly connected. End of the week. Thank Gods. |
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06/13/2003 02:42:12 PM · #67 |
| So, what is the thinking here? Does the subject have to be BLACK or can they be shadowed or silloetted to look black. Anything can be black in the right light, is that ok (with you minority forum-reading-voters)? |
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06/13/2003 02:48:04 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by sagestudio:
So, what is the thinking here? Does the subject have to be BLACK or can they be shadowed or silloetted to look black. Anything can be black in the right light, is that ok (with you minority forum-reading-voters)? |
Speaking only personally, of course, I would say that anything lit so extremely that surfaces not usually black are black because of the lighting, where the overall feel is of glimmers in the dimness, would be voted highly on the fitting-the-theme scale. But that's just me. :->
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06/13/2003 02:53:12 PM · #69 |
Originally posted by pedromarlinez:
alright, I'm going to post a link to a page from Tom Ang's "Digital Photographer's Handbook (is that some kind of copyright infringement?) on low-key images. If you don't want to be tainted by it, don't click the link. it has two sample images, and a very clear description, IMO.
Just in case Tom reads this and gets mad, I'll plug his book - Go read it. it's the best DP read I've found so far. Lots of technical advice geared to those who are not doing this professionally, and lots of images to get you inspired.
again, if you don't want to see it, don't click here:
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=24692 |
The title may be black on black, but it describes low key. I am going either way on this. Don't care, as long as it is a dark photo. This qualifies in my mind Statue.
If voters are too lazy to read the description and only the title of the challenge, so be it. And I wonder how we all score so low? (C:
tracy
Message edited by author 2003-06-13 14:54:53.
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06/13/2003 11:53:59 PM · #70 |
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06/14/2003 08:57:12 AM · #71 |
Originally posted by zerocusa:
Does this qualify? |
Those are awesome individual shots, as well as a triptych! Nice going! |
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06/14/2003 12:27:04 PM · #72 |
Originally posted by marbo:
I`m gonna shoot a black cat in a coal cellar. |
I bet you are a dog lover aren't you? Poor kitty.
lol
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06/17/2003 01:47:56 AM · #73 |
Originally posted by zerocusa:
Does this qualify? |
This image is very entertaining to contemplate. And such a great title! My only suggestion would be to exchange the place of the left image with the center image. Those two are 'alike' in feel yet the left one would make a better bridge with the right hand image. |
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