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Black & white outside - Theme Fri, 1 Feb (60)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 388 W: 35 N: 610]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (2697) | 'Black & white outside' - what a difficult subject! Thank you Helen (Helkoryo) for making us think outside the digital colour square!
Searching through my images I found many of them just 'didn't do the trick', meaning that they couldn't simply be converted to black & white without losing much of their visual impact.
This photo worked best. It was taken in the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Australia. One of the art works there is a 'fog sculpture' by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya. Every day between 12 noon and 2pm, it is turned on to produce fog from water sprayed through dozens of small nozzles. The fog stays under those trees from where it is dispersed in beautiful layers across the near-by pond or wherever any winds will blow it. On a hot summer's day one can have a most refreshing lunch break there.
Shutter speed: 1/50; F-stop: 4; ISO: 80
PP: Using Picasa, I converted it to b&w, increased contrasts, framed and re-sized it. (The contrasts will come out better on my 10-year old monitor than on LCD displays.)
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UPDATE October 2008: Following Daniel's suggestion (eyesthetix), I uploaded the original as a workshop. |
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