For this week’s installment of the photography challenge, I experimented with the black and white setting on my camera. As much as I love playing with color, the stark lines created by black and white photography stir my soul. Three of the prompts on the challenge list fit my inspiration to view the world without color.
Prompt: Capture something in black and white
It’s been years since I’ve looked closely at a lantern I keep on my fireplace mantle. Every evening this beautiful pattern illuminates when a flameless candle switches on for the night.
Photo by: c.b.w.
Prompt: Capture contrast
These trees are in my neighbor’s yard, but I never noticed the beautiful silhouette they create at sunset until I pointed my camera at them.
Photo by: c.b.w.
Prompt: Capture the light
For this shot I was inspired by how the shadows created by light looked like rays of sunshine.
Photo by: c.b.w.
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To see all the details of the photography challenge, go here.
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c.b.w. 2012
C.B. Wentworth 
very nice, my dear. I need to play with my camera more.
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Thanks! Yes – play with that camera! It does amazing things for the muse. 🙂
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I wish I had you talent. Awesome pics!!!
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Thank you! 🙂
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very nice variety. Love the lamp.
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I love that lamp. I bought it when I moved into my first apartment and its never been put away! 🙂
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Don’t know why, but the last picture is my favorite. I think black and white, whether taking a pic through the setting on a camera or developing it that way, via dark room or computer, is difficult.
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I love the last shot, too. When I took it, I didn’t expect it to turn out as well as it did, so it was a nice surprise. 🙂
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I’ve never tried black and white that way. I’ve always started in color and then on the computer changed it to B&W.
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You know, I didn’t notice much of a difference. The tone and clarity is pretty much the same. 🙂
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Neat! I’m having trouble choosing a favorite.
I read in an article about the colorization of black and white films that said the colors the actors actually wore probably didn’t match. Their clothing colors were chosen not by how they looked to the naked eye, but according to how they would look filmed in black and white.
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They still do that to a certain degree because sometimes different fabrics and colors react to the camera lenses in different ways. 🙂
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really effective pictures
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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As a big fan of black and white photography, nice work!
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Thank you ! 😀
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I’ve dabbled some with black and white… unfortunately nothing impressive came from it. Nice shots!
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Thanks! 🙂
I’ve come to learn, light is the most important thing for black and white. Wait for one of those magical sunsets and take aim. 🙂
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Beautiful pictures! Isn’t it amazing how different every-day things can look just by changing the perspective a little?
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It truly is amazing! 🙂 I’m also quite surprised how a 3″ screen is getting me to see things I never noticed before!
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these are really impressive! have you thought of entering the top photograph for EoTE’s Shadows & Silhouettes issue later this year? http://eotezine.wordpress.com
just a thought!
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Thanks! 🙂 I haven’t considered submitting my pictures anywhere, but thanks so much for the vote of confidence. I’ll check out the link.
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There is something strong and essential that black and white photographs capture, that color seems to camouflage. I like all three shots but I am drawn particularly to the last one.
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Besides the stark lines, I think I like how black and white allows for imagination. Any and all colors are allowed to inhabit an image. 🙂
I love how different people are drawn to different shots. 🙂
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You do black and white very well! The last image is my favorite, beautiful. 🙂
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Thanks. 🙂 The last one is one of those shots where I’m surprised that something so simple can be so powerful.
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You’re speaking to my creative soul!
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Yay! 🙂 I love hearing that.
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All three photos are beautiful. The lamp is lovely. The trees – oh, the palm trees! Such a different silhouette than any way up north, here. The ‘sunlight’ is very pretty, too. 🙂
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I remember how I was fascinated by the palm trees when my family first moved down here. I was just a kid and I never saw a tree like that!
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Other than the city’s Conservative that features tropical plants, I had not see palm trees until we went to Disneyland. It was at Christmas time and thought it very strange not to see evergreen trees decorated but strings of lights on palm trees! 🙂
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Synchronicity. My ‘haiga’ today is monochrome.
Nice pics, CB.
I have always loved black-and-white photography. It seems to have a quality of ‘vérité’. It seems to be as much ‘reportage’ as art. That’s why I love the work of the late Robert Doisneau so much.
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When I went to the Tate last year, I saw an amazing exhibition of Diane Arbus. Her black and white photography is incredible, too.
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This process of prompt / imagine / create is fascinating! Keep ’em coming!
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I’ve been a little busy with work lately, but I keep the list and my camera with me at all times. I’m hoping to have some time to capture things around my workplace next week. That should be interesting. 🙂
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