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| Original photo, full-frame. |
Last month we took the ferry to Port Townsend. It felt weird not getting out of the car and not being on deck during the ride, but it still felt good just to be out, you know?
I took a couple of photos of buildings at the boat yard. Why? I found the way they intersected stark and interesting.
[Currently I'm having trouble with Blogger putting photographs where I want them to be. The other three photos are at the bottom of this post. Grrrrr.]
Back home, I began a bit of post-processing and wondered how they'd look in black and white. If what I liked about the scene was its starkness and simplicity, maybe the color is too much. And the shapes are so strong, perhaps black and white would emphasize those shapes.
And then, I turned each one into a square. Why? To simplify the composition and to emphasize the shapes and how they overlap even more.
Although I love color, I found it distracting. And square versus full-frame? The wide horizontal look emphasizes movement as your eye follows one building over to another. The square format is rather static because your eye hits the picture and then just stays there, but to me it makes the subject matter seem more important.
My final decision? The simplified square B&W version, followed closely by the B&W full-frame format.
But most of all, it felt good getting outside, going somewhere different, and using my digital SLR camera rather than resorting to the iPhone. Ahhhhh . . .
All images copyright ©2020 Carol Leigh
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| Square version of original photo. |
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| Full-frame, black and white. |
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| Square, black and white. |
