Monochrome Mini Competition #363

[Cambridge in Colour]

This is a monochrome-themed competition that is open to all CiC members.

ENTERING. Add your MONOCHROME/B&W image in a new post below. Make sure to change your post title to a name for your picture (click the "Go Advanced" button). Only one entry per person, and any tinted images should utilize no more than one color. For help posting images, go here.

VOTING. When this competition reaches 10 entries, a poll will be automatically added and any member may then vote. After 2 days, voting ends and the winner is determined.

Once voting begins, a new competition will be automatically started.

Good luck!

Notes: Please do not request feedback or comment on other images until after voting has closed, as it could be unfair to other entrants. Photos must be your own, and never entered into one of our prior competitions. We also ask that only recently taken or edited photos be used as entries (in the spirit of motivating everyone to continually improve).

PS: Make sure to also vote on the previous competition here.

[frigidlight]

[LiseeMariee]

[Lukich]

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM
Exposure: Manual exposure, 1/320 sec, f/2.8, ISO 400

[MiniChris]

[3Wheels]

[Yooper]

Captured at a lake just West of Marquette in Michigan's Upper Peninsula as a storm was clearing.



Canon 5D MkII, Canon 24-105L, 40mm
f/22, 1/5 sec, ISO 100

[JPS]

Memory's from the past

[Bobobird]

[sarabi]

[Skyline]

[MiniChris]

Went to bed late with a tie, awoke with a win. Weird.

A lot of good work in this comp.

[Yooper]

Congratulations, Chris. That is not an easy scene to get properly exposed and processed properly to keep the blacks black and the whites visible but not so bright that you lose the feeling of night time, and you've done that very well here. I also like your point of view, as it gives some depth to the image, as does the depth of field. Well done. Paul

[MiniChris]

The real ldifficulty of this shot came in the exposure. The foreground boats are all done by the light of a full moon, while the back lights are obviously big old streetlight tungstens. It took a ten second exposure to balance the two lights. I wanted it as a color image, but I couldn't get a decent color balance between the two quite different lighting conditions.

I liked your image for its reflective qualities but feel had you burned the left and right side trees a hair more, you would have allowed the lighter part of the sky above that area to push the foreground forward a bit more and strengthened the contrast. I do tend more toward higher contrast, so my suggestions may not work for you.

Not to disparage anyone's image on here, but I really saw potential in Sarabi's isolation image. This work reminded me of some of Manthos more recent work. I am attaching an edit I made to your image, that could be another way of looking at your shot.

I felt the railing on the right side was unecessary and that it was tilted just a bit on a leftward downhill slope. I corrected both and went to a square crop, then opened up the exposure a bit on the figure and added a bit of depth to the sky...I thought perhaps by darkening the top edge, it would help to contain the image and direct the eye only to the figure.