I don't think you'll be offended if I say that you were lucky to have this shot come out so well. You and I have always loved summer for its warmth and greenery and lamented it as a time of fairly homogeneous colors (like, uh, green), which can make interesting photographs difficult, particularly in black and white. Yet you managed to find an arrangement of trees and rocks and water that 1) leads us into the background, 2) has an array of textures and 3) is slightly brooding, despite the bright sky.
Then again, maybe you weren't lucky at all. Maybe you thought long and hard about this, knew your film and its capabilities, and took the shot thinking, "yeah, I got that."
In either case, I'm impressed.
Don Bell June 7, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Rather amazing to be able to perceive the wonderful variety of foliage, perhaps because you did shoot it in black and white, versus how it may have all melded together as "green" had it been shot in color. And, normally I'd think a shot like this would feel incredibly cluttered with foreground and background colliding, yet this works perhaps because of all the hues from black through gray to white. Fun to view this.
Near the North Woods of Central Park, NYC.
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June 5, 2008 at 7:44 am
I don't think you'll be offended if I say that you were lucky to have this shot come out so well. You and I have always loved summer for its warmth and greenery and lamented it as a time of fairly homogeneous colors (like, uh, green), which can make interesting photographs difficult, particularly in black and white. Yet you managed to find an arrangement of trees and rocks and water that 1) leads us into the background, 2) has an array of textures and 3) is slightly brooding, despite the bright sky.
Then again, maybe you weren't lucky at all. Maybe you thought long and hard about this, knew your film and its capabilities, and took the shot thinking, "yeah, I got that."
In either case, I'm impressed.
June 7, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Rather amazing to be able to perceive the wonderful variety of foliage, perhaps because you did shoot it in black and white, versus how it may have all melded together as "green" had it been shot in color. And, normally I'd think a shot like this would feel incredibly cluttered with foreground and background colliding, yet this works perhaps because of all the hues from black through gray to white. Fun to view this.