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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/16/2008
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You are ver welcome, Indranil! I am glad if it was of help for you!
Thanks a lot for your nice statement about my "observations"! But such images of simple objects I think we have a lot in UF. My impression is that this is one of the most abundant kind of photo, or am I mistaken? Anyway, the question is not what but how it was captured.
I think that I miss the point many times on such "simple object" images regardless of the usual oneliner comments that always say "excellent". ;-) Perhaps I manage to get a bit better in future, but this kind of photography is not very interesting for me as it almost excludes composition in the strict sense. The current series is a small one of mine - most of the time I do other things in photography.
Keep it up and all the best!!
Nick
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Indranil Ray
{K:2035} 10/15/2008
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Nick, I used to see your images because I like your observations. You have taken lots of nice photograph of some simple objects which could have been ignored by others and few compositions which I havent seen before :)
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Indranil Ray
{K:2035} 10/15/2008
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Excellent writing. Thanks a lot Nick. It is a great description. I understand :).
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/15/2008
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You are very welcome, Indranil! And I thank you for seeing so much in my rather average images.
About B&W, it certainly has its special charms. It reduces the amount of necessary information down to the few most important things on the image, making thus the definition of the subject clearer, simpler, and with that also more powerful. It is also capable of making a much better, subtler differentiation between light and shadow. This is already because of physical reasons. If you have to catch and save the information about three main colors and their luminance and saturation, then the number of avialable bytes has to be seoparated into three groups - one for each main color. This of course reduces the possible shades of each main color. If you only have B&W and the same number of available bytes, then all bytes are available for a bigger amount of shades between black and white since you don't have to save any other information. For the same size of an image file, the B&W will differentiate better the subtler shades at the cost of eliminating the colors. Of course then the mapping of colors to grey shades can also introduce problems that do not exist on the color image - like for example bringing regions of high contrast to a much lower contrast. So it's just doing both, comparing, etc.
Cheers!
Nick
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Indranil Ray
{K:2035} 10/13/2008
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Thank you very much Mojgan, Nice to hear from you. My greetings.
Best Regards!
Indranil
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Indranil Ray
{K:2035} 10/13/2008
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Thanks you very much Nick once again. Another great descriptions, suggestions and crits. I really love to hear from you. Thanks to adjusting the levels of the photograph. It also looks nice. I really like Black and White photography. I dont know but some how I found much depth in the B&W. I always like light and shade atmosphere or high contrast atmosphere, kind of dramatic scene. But I always concider that every atmosphere is special if you are a good photographer. Just a great observation needed. This things I am learning seeing your photographs. Thanks for your suggestions, it is a great help for me :).
Best Regards!
Indranil
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Indranil Ray
{K:2035} 10/13/2008
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Thanks you very much Petros. Glad to know you like the photograph :)
Best Regards!
Indranil
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Mojgan Bahasadri
{K:16243} 10/13/2008
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Beautiful !!
the placement of the face in the frame is great!!
best to you,
Mojgan
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/11/2008
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Another very good one in the same sense as the other portraits you posted recently, Indanil! Again the games of light and shadow "construct" a 3-D face, that looks extremely tangible on the image. The composition supports that very well, as the emphasis of the face plasticity gets amplified by its visual antithesis against the flat white wall. BTW, this brings also tension and contrast.
Perhaps some greater contrast could help raising all that to even higher levels? (Attachment). It looks to me as if the tension would be higher then but at the cost of the loss of some of the atmosphere of the original. So, since to me all PS manipulations are but hints for "backward engineering", and only out of curiosity, how could we shoot it with higher contrast using your camera? (My knowledge about digital cameras doesn't include this.)
Cheers!
Nick
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Adjusted levels for contrast |
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Petros Stamatakos
{K:12101} 10/11/2008
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Love the composition and light here. Simple does it!
Good work Indranil!
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