Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dualism of Things

Today I finished the postprocessing of some pictures, It's sometimes quite hard to decide if pictures have their best expression in color or B/W tone.
I think it mainly depends on the personal likes or dislikes, but at the following picture, I couldn't really decide :)

Friday, August 13, 2010

Forms and Figures

While the last post had the motive of perspectives, I want to show some pictures that point out a theme mainly displaying forms and figures.

This picture displayes a shadow arrangement that was taken at night - here the main focus lies on the principle of repetition and mirrowing.

This B/W picture was taken at the Kaiserswerth castle ruin, the forms of the windows and the 'natural' repetion of the windows was quite good.
This scenery at the market place in Lank-Latum (Meerbusch) was interesting, because the sculptures are arranged in a way that they look at each other. On looking at the picture, the viewer's look also goes along the virtual 'look' lines between the figures. To emphazise them a little, they were put in a decent sepia color tone.
Lovely, isn't it ? Repetition of heart-forms in the foreground, emphazized by the vanishing background.

Being Perspective dependent

Vacation - the best time in the year and also for taking some pictures :).
As mentioned in the last post, I'm currently concentrating on B/W pictures, also trying to modify them slightly with gimp as postprocessing. Turns out not to be that easy ;)

This picture was taken in Meerbusch-Lank Latum, notice the perspctive of the BUS sign in this shot and the chess-like pettern of the pavement.
This shot also concentrates on the perspective within the pedestrian precinct. In the post processing, the picture was adapted to give it a more darker look and emphazize the quite abandoned touch of the scene.
This is a castle ruin in Kaiserwerth, on this shot I concentrated on the composition of the perspective (vanishing point in the upper third of the picture) and also the perspective of the stairs are in focus here.
This picture was also taken in Kaiserswerth, the narrowness of the forrest-walk was quite a view!