Sunday, August 2, 2009

Amateur B&W hour in Utah and Ofu

Almost every nature shot I take here is some shade of green. Not that it's old or uninteresting, but I've been playing with black and white photography to spice things up. I have no idea what I'm doing and just change shutter speeds and f-stops and hope autofocus does the rest. I like a lot of what I get. What do you think?

These first five pictures are from Utah either in or around Uintah National Forest. I spent many days of our vacation going to different waterfalls and such. Isaac was a trooper and even finished one of the hikes with a huge blister on his heel.


In the previous post, Melinda showed y'all some pictures of Ofu. It's one of the outer islands in American Samoa. I was there for a three day environmental discoveries camp for kids but had to spend about 7 days due to the flight situation. So I had a lot of time to hike along the coasts and summitted Ofu mountain with the superintendent of the National Park Service here, Mike.

Just to show you that greens are interesting I took a BW picture of this coconut log and then a color photo because the color is unreal.

1 comment:

Metta said...

Eph. I very much like the experimenting. After looking through, I'd say that the photos that have a lot of different textures (like the second and fourth shot in the Utah series) work really well in B&W. On the other hand, that first shot in the Ofu series doesn't quite do it for me in B&W because the trees, mountains etc. are far enough away that they run together and really need color to separate the entities. Your framing is really creative and you've got a good eye. Seems like highly textured shots are best with black and white. Love the shells in the rock.