We love black and white (and you know it). This week we have two protagonists, the city and the black and white.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. Topics range from portraits to macrophotography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You’ll have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- You know we fell in love with black and white.
- For many reasons.
- So much so that we couldn’t resist the publication of the Full Black and White Photography Guide.
And since I want you to practice black-and-white photography, I suggest you tell us what’s going on in your city but removing the colors, focusing all your attention on light, textures, shadows, rhythm, history?Work in black and white as you deserve and avoid these mistakes. That’s why I recommend you photograph in color so you don’t lose valuable “hyper” information and then pass it on in gray levels with a publisher. Whether you live in a big city or a small town, everyone has their own history and life, tell us and take their breath away.
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge, upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer’s Blog: In the photo description, mention the keyword?Challenge The city in black and white? Followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
Good picture
Textures, geometries, lights and shadows, street stories. . . a black-and-white handshake on your pictures, here’s a nice sample:
If you are used to challenges, you will know that the photographs that make me vibrate are those that convey me beyond sharpness, contrast or any other technical aspect. If it is also a good photo in this sense, I cannot help but applaud. Among the fantastic images that you sent for this challenge, I want to highlight Chema Usieto’s (with a not short title, by the way?, But with a title). I mean “Room overlooking the growth of the city of Shanghai”. It’s a perfect grayscale photo that includes all tones from low to high in fantastic light and good composition. I love the natural environment of the “piece” of town that the author shows us. And I love the fact that it was captured that way because it creates a great visual contrast. This photograph impacts the viewer due to the confrontation between the calm of the hotel room that serves as a refuge, home and the chaos of the city. Rest against noise, harmony against disorder. Many of us like to live in cities, with their services and amenities, but at the end of the day we have to isolate ourselves in our homes, avoid traffic, construction noise, hustle and bustle and rush? This is exactly what this image tells us. Congratulations, Chema! And thanks to the rest of the participants, Shanghai is growing as a city and you as photographers.