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B&W (black & white) photography offers a fantastic opportunity to intrigue your viewer.
By removing color from your capture, you remove a lot of the cues that would, in a sense, spoon-feed the viewer what it is you are trying to say. This way, the viewer is encouraged to experience a stronger emotional reaction, as he/she observes a scene that is so much more open to interpretation.
The weather has been a bit naughty the last few days. However, if you’re not afraid of getting a little wet, it can present some truly wonderful opportunities for expression.
Water can be a wonderful plaything. It is ever changing, always moving. It catches light in a wonderful manner. Because of this quality, it offers a great opportunity for creative post processing, where you can give your entire image a surreal feel.
As any of you that have shot in low light know, the use of a flash can save you out of a dark and/or blurry photograph. In fact, you may have even used your flash during the day, if you are trying to equalise a strongly backlit subject.
However, a flash can be used to do a lot more. You can actually point it away from whatever you’re shooting, and watch what happens…
Some ideas for you to try are to point it to a wall next to your subject, or the ceiling. Things become more interesting when you have some coloured surface to bounce your light off, such as a wooden table (yes, you can also bounce the flash from the bottom up).
Note : You cannot do this with a built-in flash unit. Be it a P&S (Point and Shoot, ie pocket), or DSLR, camera, that flash is built to always point the same way as your lens. You need an articulated flash unit, ie a flash that can, at least, change elevation (and, in better units, rotation).
Here are some picks of the crop from a shoot we did at a wonderful garden. You may notice how sepia tone, among other adjustments, has been used to warm up these shots and complement both the rose, and the model.
Here are some simple, but nice, examples of what you can do with just a flashgun. These shots were taken with the use of the ambient light, and bounce flash.
Here we enhance the available room light.
And here we almost completely override it.
We came across a wedding photo shoot at St Kilda beach. They were a little unlucky, since the weather was less than ideal for this type of activity.
The couple was wonderful, and more than happy to look over for a few shots. In the end, we were asked if we could share our results with them.