Inspired #55
Creating contrasts with shadow and light
Hello and welcome to Inspired, a weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.
This week I have been working with detail, creating black and white pairs - one dark and moody with plenty of contrast and one much lighter and more high key in appearance. These contrasting pairs were created using natural light working with areas of shade and sunlight. I love the striking opposites that they make so in this weeks post I thought I would discuss how I achieved this effect using a selection of flowers that I photographed in some dappled light in Southwold.
My idea for this challenge was to create sets of images that contained one dark flower with a light background, contrasting with one light flower and a dark background. My challenge was to achieve this in camera by working with areas of shadow and sunlight.
