“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” – Charles Dickens
The challenge this week is to show a few ways of expressing contrasts in photography, such as tone, lights/shadows, colors, architectural structures, softness/texture, landscape.
In the first image shows a stark contrast between silhouettes of the people along the shore line and the lovely golden tones from the setting sun.
Even though these two pictures are the same ferns the contrast in their color is determined by the seasons. A beautiful green color most of the year although in autumn the cooler temperatures turn them into gorgeous reds, oranges and yellows.
“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.” – Conrad Hall
This landscape shot shows a contrasting sky as storm clouds moving into the area. The contrasting light and shadows creates nice reflections on the water.
“Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important.” – John Sununu
This is an example of contrasting architectural structures. This old Boston church is located against a new high rise with an even newer glass high rise to its right.
“When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. Usually find a reason to justify taking that photo – symmetry or color or contrast – and it’s my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.” – Connor Franta
I see several contrasting features in this picture; colors, textures plus light and dark. The delicate violet Cosmo flower is in stark contrast to the vivid fall foliage and golf course in the background plus the edge lighting on the flower buds (camera flash) creates an interesting contrast in the dark shadows.
Hope you enjoyed seeing a these few examples of contrast.
Amy (The World is a Book…) selected this interesting topic and you might want to check out her post by clicking on the link above.
“May we never get so used to seeing things from our one point of view that we forget to see them from other points of view. Because it’s true what they say: There’s more to a thing than meets the eye.” – Billy Jack Brawner