Title ‘Simple Decay’
I tend to do a fair amount of post processing on my dereliction pictures, usually being either HDR or mixing colour and mono layers together. Sometimes though, a straight forward switch to black and white is all that’s needed.
Tag: Black and White
Mono Monday-The lonely chair
Hi all, just a short post from me today.
This past week has been quite hectic, being both mine and my wife’s mother’s 60th birthday. A few things including blogging has had to take a bit of a back seat, hence my reason for choosing to post this shot of an old chair in a derelict corridor.
That’s it from me for now, I hope to get the next post up within the next few days. Until then, happy shooting.
Mono Monday-Time to reflect
Title-‘Time to reflect’
This is a shot that I’ve been sitting on for quite a while not really knowing what to do with. I originally took two shots, one with me as you see by the window, and another with me leaning against the wall in the corridor. The intention was to combine the two as a multiplicity picture, however, after a few attempts I found that it wasn’t quite working the way I had envisioned so I gave up and put the idea to one side. Approaching it a few months later with a fresh head I decided that using just one of the shots in black and white would suit the scene better. Perhaps having all this technology at our fingertips can sometimes cloud our judgement. Taking a more straight forward approach every now and then could possibly result at a better solution.
Mono Monday-Encased in crystal
Title – ‘Encased in soda crystal’
Wow, it’s Monday again already. The time seems to be flying by these days.
So I thought I’d offer up something a little different today. After the the first two weeks both being candid street photography I felt a change was needed to mix it up a bit. What you see here is a silver charm bracelet that had been left in a bowl of soda crystals over the course of a weekend. Once the water had evaporated the soda gradually formed crystals around the bracelet ending up in an interesting abstract form. This wasn’t done purposely for the sake of art, rather it was a happy accident created by a work colleague forgetting to take it out of the bowl before going home.
Being something that happened at work meant that I didn’t have my SLR with me, but I did have my new HTC android phone and this gave me a great opportunity to try and do something a little more creative with it. I used the Vignette app with the Ilford Black and white setting and one of the grunge borders.
‘The best camera is the one you have with you’, so the saying goes.
Which handily allows me to plug a new side project I’ve embarked on based entirely on using my phone for taking pictures, I’m calling it ‘Cellpix’. I’m certainly not the first person to do this but what the heck, I’m going to have fun with it. You can find it at http://davewares.tumblr.com and I’d be very pleased if you could pop on over and take a look.
As always, comments are very welcome. Thanks for stopping by.
Mono Monday ‘Tenderness’
Title ‘Tenderness’
Candid photography is not something I usually do but when I saw these two I just had to get the shot. Taken on the Millennium Bridge, with the Tate Modern in the background. I think this type of subject lends itself perfectly to being presented in black and white, giving it that ‘timeless’ quality.
Dave Wares 