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Jul 15, 2008 8:45:30 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 8:45:30 GMT -5
This barn probably was built no earlier than the late 1930s but I think it still has a lot of character. I pass it every day on my way to work.
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Jul 15, 2008 10:25:50 GMT -5
Post by GeneW on Jul 15, 2008 10:25:50 GMT -5
This is a beautiful old barn, Wayne. I think it would also look good in B&W.
Gene
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Jul 15, 2008 11:47:16 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 11:47:16 GMT -5
Good call, Gene: When I shot it today there was a little overcast so the color was muted. Some mornings when the sun is very low in the sky it's more of a color situation.
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Jul 15, 2008 13:30:45 GMT -5
Post by GeneW on Jul 15, 2008 13:30:45 GMT -5
Oooh. I really like the barn in B&W!
Gene
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Jul 15, 2008 15:36:28 GMT -5
Post by PeterW on Jul 15, 2008 15:36:28 GMT -5
Wayne:
I love pictures of old and derelict buildings like this, and I think the atmosphere usually comes over better in a photograph in black and white than in colour.
This is strange because when we see one of these old buildings we naturally see it in colour, and still get the atmosphere. The people who lived and/or worked there also saw it in colour.
I got to thinking about why this should be, and thought maybe it's because at the time when buildings like this were first built, and possibly when they were still in use, black and white was the normal type of photography, and we subconsciously associate black and white in a subject like this with age.
But in a way, a black and white photograph is an unreal representation.
Yet the opposite often applies with pictures of old and derelict machinery. The colour of peeling paint and rust, and often the vegetation growing round or even through it, seems to add atmosphere to the picture.
What do others think?
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Jul 15, 2008 17:06:37 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 17:06:37 GMT -5
Peter:
Maybe it's because of all the old family pictures we have that are black and white--along with most historical photos up to about the 1950s, but I always have believed I see things from the past in black and white rather than color--buildings, vehicles--even people. When I shot for newspapers back in the 1960s and '70s it was virtually all black and white. You learned to focus on composition, not color. Sometimes bright color can save a photo that lack composition--or at least it distracts the viewer.
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Jul 15, 2008 19:17:09 GMT -5
Post by mickeyobe on Jul 15, 2008 19:17:09 GMT -5
Wayne,
Either way they are both splendid pictures of a picturesque building.
I am a colour person although there is, undeniably, something special about a rich B & W photo.
Look at the wonderful colours of those old barn boards in your picture and the way they blend and merge with each other. But the deep, rich B & W gives the trees on the right a sort of nobility that is absent in the colour picture.
Mickey
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Jul 16, 2008 6:23:22 GMT -5
Post by GeneW on Jul 16, 2008 6:23:22 GMT -5
But in a way, a black and white photograph is an unreal representation. I think this is true, Peter. People sometimes ask me why I bother to create B&W photos when we see the world in colour. I usually answer that B&W is, in general, a more abstract medium -- taking the colours of a scene and translating them into forms, shapes, textures, and tonalities. I also think there's more room for interpretation in B&W. You can intensely lighten and darken parts of images for more dramatic effect or emphasis. Colour is less forgiving, imo, in terms of local manipulation. My feelings about this go back to my darkroom days when I was trying to pull the most aesthetic prints I could from my B&W negatives. Most of my friends at the time were shooting colour transparencies and working on getting the perfect image 'in camera'. Two different worlds -- both good. Gene
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Jul 16, 2008 10:48:28 GMT -5
Post by Randy on Jul 16, 2008 10:48:28 GMT -5
Considering it's age, the walls and roof seem to be fairly straight. Very nice shot Wayne.
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Jul 16, 2008 12:24:43 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2008 12:24:43 GMT -5
Thanks, everyone. This particular conversation suggests that one of the main reasons we all get along so well is that we all thing pretty much alike--at least on photographic subjects.
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Jul 16, 2008 16:19:32 GMT -5
Post by Randy on Jul 16, 2008 16:19:32 GMT -5
Yeah...we "thing" alike Wayne. ;D
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Jul 16, 2008 17:50:30 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2008 17:50:30 GMT -5
Darn spelling cops!!
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Jul 16, 2008 20:01:32 GMT -5
Post by PeterW on Jul 16, 2008 20:01:32 GMT -5
Tho letth have a thing-thong - Thing a thong of thixpenth perhapth?
Sorry (Thorry)! ;D ;D.
PeterW
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