B&W Practice
By PLETHOS
@Plethos (13560)
United States
October 24, 2018 3:00am CST
I love black and white photography. The mood a photo takes dependent on the
range of just two tones of colors has always intrigued me. Especially when it
comes to people.
It can create moods of sadness, pain, joy, dramatization. You can be lead into
the subject matter and come away with a myriad of interpretations.
B&W photography can be used to show ones strengths and weakness in a single portrait. It can bring out more character in a persons wrinkles. Show a glimpse of a persons hardened life. The trials and tribulations of ones journey get exposed with the way the light and shadows lay on the faces features.
Body posture can be emphasized to look relaxed or forced into a pose. It can relay body langauge more convincingly and definitively.
I decided to challenge my amaturish photography skills by using a mini figure of Squidward and to see if i could make it appear as if he were an actual person. I wanted to see if I could get any of what I love about B&W photography in a photo.
I definitely need to improve on my photo editing with the shadows and light.
Squidward is a bit of a gloomy character on the spongebob cartoons, so I guess
I shouldnt of have been surprised when the mood I got from the picture was that
he's a suicide waiting to happen. Or at least a breakdown in his near future.
Any opinions or ideas for me guys?
Too much? Just blah? Keep on trying? Give it up? Practice, practice, practice !
Photograph- Taken/Owned by me, Plethos
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6 responses
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
24 Oct 18
I am also a fan of black and white photos. When we used to get paper pictures I chose the option black and white on whole rolls of film.
No ideas to share I am just some lady in Alabama with a camera.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Oct 18
@Plethos I think the ones I got are 4x6
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@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
The photo you took of Squidward makes me think of my youth that is long gone. I have no particular affinity for the show as I was already in my teens when it aired, but I often saw it in passing, frequent enough to know the names of many characters. This photo makes me think that this particular time of my life is like a shelved toy, no longer used and might as well be discarded.
My favorite black and white picture is a photo of me on my wedding day. Our photographer gave us hundreds of vibrant colored photos, and then this one. I wasn't even aware that this photo was taken. It was a candid shot and I don't know why the photographer made it black and white. In the photo, I was walking out my hotel room door. It seems to me this photo represents me leaving singlehood behind and walking towards a new path.
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@Dena91 (15860)
• United States
24 Oct 18
Back one summer when I was in junior high I took some photography classes the school was having. We got to develop our own pictures first ones in black and white, later on color. That's when I began my love of photography. Personally I like taking pictures of nature and of people when they don't know I am taking their picture. The pictures seem to be more natural.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
24 Oct 18
I love black and white, too!
Way back I was in a photography club. My mentor he took the coolest picture in black and white. What it was , was lace against an egg. You couldn't tell that, but it made a neat pattern.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
25 Oct 18
@Plethos Camera clubs can be a lot of fun.... I hope you cultivate that skill set.
It's so true, beauty in the every day used to be my goal
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