Strength of interpretation

The idea behind this exercise was the demonstration that the removal of colour from an image allows for more interpretation of the tonal range. I chose two photographs where I could make the following adjustments:

• A strong increase of contrast that will include clipping in at least the shadow areas.

• Low or high key treatment, in which the entire brightness range is shifted down or up the scale.



 

P572 : Original image

 





 

P573: Strong increase In contrast 





P574:  High key treatment




P575: B/w  Strong increase in contrast 

P576: B/w High key treatment

Looking at the various versions above, I think the high key treatment gives more a sense of the wintry day; the black and white version being my preferred choice as the difference in tone works better. Both colour and black and white  images where the contrast was significantly increase lose a lot of detail .




P577: Original

 

P579: High key treatment

P578: Strong increase in contrast

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 








P580: B/w Strong increase in contrast

P581: B/w High key treatment

The above images are interesting.. The colour image reworked with a strong increase in colour gives a sense of the hot sun of the day through the bright orange / yellow tiles  which I expected though detail in the shadow is lost. The black and white version seems more extreme  and does not work as well in terms of representing the 'hot sun'. In the high key treatment version the detail remains but the ' bleached' appearance does not work as well I thought it might before completing the processing. Again the high key black and white version works better for me.