Ah - using a mobile phone, I should have guessed, and a phone does suit what you are trying to achieve. It also means you are not carrying around a bulky expensive thing, which is a bonus.
Shooting Black & White is a different sort of limitation: to me B&W only suits scenes where there is very little colour variation, as otherwise you are just throwing away information (yes, I have a computer background!) which feels wrong. Looking back on what you’ve posted, (in my opinion) you’ve generally stuck to images where B&W works.
I’d love to find a small digital rangefinder with a larger lens to carry everywhere with me. 25 years ago I always carried Grandpa’s Yashica Lynx 14e and 4 rolls of Tri-X with me “just in case”. It was fun.
I like how the approach to black and white photography is different from color. For B&W I concentrate on contrast and form as well as the subject but with color my focus is on saturation and the ‘shape’ of color. I don’t think information is thrown away. I think it’s about working with the strengths and parameters of the medium.
Or sometimes it’s just play. Astronomatopoeia is play.
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Ah - using a mobile phone, I should have guessed, and a phone does suit what you are trying to achieve. It also means you are not carrying around a bulky expensive thing, which is a bonus.
Shooting Black & White is a different sort of limitation: to me B&W only suits scenes where there is very little colour variation, as otherwise you are just throwing away information (yes, I have a computer background!) which feels wrong. Looking back on what you’ve posted, (in my opinion) you’ve generally stuck to images where B&W works.
I’d love to find a small digital rangefinder with a larger lens to carry everywhere with me. 25 years ago I always carried Grandpa’s Yashica Lynx 14e and 4 rolls of Tri-X with me “just in case”. It was fun.
I like how the approach to black and white photography is different from color. For B&W I concentrate on contrast and form as well as the subject but with color my focus is on saturation and the ‘shape’ of color. I don’t think information is thrown away. I think it’s about working with the strengths and parameters of the medium.
Or sometimes it’s just play. Astronomatopoeia is play.