Photo of the Week 2012-05-07

... continuing with my exploration of warmtone monochrome images, I recalled a podcast from Lenswork, the excellent podcast by Brooks Jensen, fine art photographer, publisher and visual artist. In the podcast, Brooks explained that warmtoned images appear more three dimensional when compared to images with a neutral tone. He referenced a survey, that I have yet to find online, stating that two thirds of people see warmtone images as having a three dimensional quality not present in images using other toning hues such as neutral, selenium etc.

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I'm not entirely certain that I would say I find warmtone images more three dimensional, but I do find the resulting images quite pleasing and quite like the result. Perhaps I am in the one third, or I have not seen enough comparative examples to this point. One thing I know, I will continue to experiment with warmtone on my photographic journey.

DJE 

 

Photo of the Week 2012-04-30

Every now and then there is an image that really resonates with me, one that I keep coming back to in my mind, one that I know I want to craft into a fine art piece that I'll proudly display on my own walls. Forest Mist is such an image. Taken just about two months ago it's an image that I have envisioned for a long time. The vision was there, I just needed to place myself in the right condtions at the right time to be able to capture the scene.

I was pleased with the colour version that I had processed it with a slight vignette and a fair amount of dodging and burning reminiscent of work previously done in the "wet" darkroom. Several sizes and itterations of the work had been printed to scrutinize before committing to frame and hang the result. Still, it wasn't until I was studying images from another photographer with a series of warmtoned B&W landscapes that I considered processing this one in B&W.

I had been doing some some research on "intimate landscapes" as introduced by photographer Eliot Porter and came across the work of Guy Tal. Some time spent reviewing Guy's images and a few other references on warm toned B&W images and I knew what I needed to do to complete my work on forest mist.

forest light - monochrome

... it's already printed for my office, larger version for home to come.


 DJE