High Key Lines

Walter Glover
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High Key Lines

Postby Walter Glover » 08 Feb 2016, 22:23

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High Key Whitewashed Stairs, Paddington, NSW
Walter Glover

"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
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Maris
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Location: Noosa

Re: High Key Lines

Postby Maris » 10 Feb 2016, 07:55

This I like! Firstly because it's really well seen and composed and secondly because it illustrates a pet theory of mine.

To make a large area of white look even whiter include some black "keys", small areas of black maybe 2 or 3 percent of the picture area. And the process also works in reverse: black looks blacker if there are a few spots of white about.

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Re: High Key Lines

Postby Walter Glover » 11 Feb 2016, 09:27

Thank you Maris,

I have a passion, especially in monochrome photography, for the delicacy of 'white on white' and also for 'black on black'. I concur with your view that a small reference to the other end of the tonal range helps anchor the tonality as purposeful rather than failure or error.
Walter Glover

"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
Emanuel Kant


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