Black and White

 Catching light 142

Welcome to Catching light meme.

 Create images with light or lack of light. I say light as it don´t have to be sunlight. The topic can, of course, be interpreted in many ways.  Most important have fun.

I´d like this to be a living meme. Not only another linky list. So far this is a small meme, surely you have the time to comment on others. Thank you for participating.

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Black and White
© NF Photo 150604, Boda Kvarn

This day the sun shone nicely on the white cows. I have taken shots of them before and I like how the light enhances the ears of them. The bright halo of hair on the ears edges and the red tone in the ear that comes from blood vessels. This day they had company of a black cow standing in the shadows. I wanted to see what she looked like in back light. Finally she came out but it was impossible. No effect in the ears, just a black feature silhouette standing there. I did not even take a shot.

When the black one started to graze she got some buttercups in front of her. Wow, there was the shot!
Conclusion for today. The different colors made me take two completely different shots of the cows. The white one was great in back light but was not enhanced by the buttercups at all. For the black cow it was the other way around. No back light but together with buttercups it made wonders. As images, not portraits, that is!

Looking at the image of the black cow I realize it can do as a macro shot so I´m linking up with
Macro Monday

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Under exposed image for dark background

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Freezer

 

Freezer Abstract
 © NF Photo 140114
  

I got a question about how I manage to get the black backgrounds in my freezer and other shots.
The trick is that you have to expose for the highlights and not for the "normal" light. That means you have to underexpose it. I usually set the camera and looking to see what it looks like. Adjusting settings and angles till I get what I want.

You can´t use Auto settings you have to choose AV, TV or Manual.
For AV and TV you have to set the exposure compensation to maybe -2 and perhaps a shorter shutter speed.

Then it is good with digital cameras as you can take some shots and adjust till you are satisfied.
For the freezer I had a flashlight below the bars I was shooting. And I have another image I will probably post tomorrow. It shows a different kind of reflections.

Smoke Photo

 © NF Photo 140119

For the smoke images you have to set lighting from the sides or below as I did, never let the light hit the black background you are using. A dark room is preferable.

And or course, if background isn´t dark enough you can use some software to edit them.
I hope this made sence. Good luck!

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