From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Composition
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Day five solution: Composing with B&W in mind
From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Composition
Day five solution: Composing with B&W in mind
- Welcome to our day five solution movie. This is it. You've made it all the way through assuming you actually did the day five today. This is the last one and it may be that this one felt a lot like the first problem to you on day one because that's how I approached it. I went out, first, looking for light because I know where there is strong dramatic light, there's going to be strong dramatic line and shape and that's what I'm going to build a black and white image from. I was working at dusk, or not quite dusk, but the sun's very low in the sky. That's why there's all this traffic. We're near a restaurant. So, it wasn't cheating, but I was definitely skewing things in my favor because with this low angle light, I've got really strong shadows. That gives me a lot to play with in the world of black and white. I saw a lot of things, but what really caught my eye, were these trees behind this hedge just because I really like the interplay of the solid wall in the hedge with all this…
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