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Love it! The picture seems to have only three or four distinctive grays and the shapes form a kind of a jigsaw cloudscape. Very surprising.
I found on the forum the former thread with black and whites started in January 2015 and ended in March 2015. It is a pity that the pictures can’t be seen anymore. It was fun reading the thread.
I mentioned some experiments with White an Black. Here is the positive of the one that surprised me.
A dissipating lacunosus formation.
And this is the negative, but has all the features of a positive of a clouded sky, a bit mamma-like.
Yeah, I imagine a distant see shore…
When making the picture with the white shadows I found out that making a negative out of a positive often results in “just a negative” , but sometimes it surprises. I come up later with an example I liked.
My found sea shell…
New years day in Holland was like in Devon, Gini. Only one shade of gray. I had to wait for the next day for some contrast and color, or is that cheating on the thread with this name? Anyway I like to contribute, so everybody happy new year to all!
That was a quite mystical one to end the year with Michael. The few lighter spots give it a special feel. Beautiful.
Unfortunately, the new year starts here (the Netherlands) with stratus and drizzle as in Devon, England. So no picture on your “New Year Day’s Clouds” thread.
I want to start the new year with a White and Black one in stead of an Black and White one. The negative has so to say the right positive appearance to start with.
Happy new year to all who reads this!
I like to read about your approach of duplicatus Michael. The example you added is very nice. I blew it up as you suggested but when looking from a distance it turns out to be even surprising.
Thinking about what my approach might be, I come to the conclusion that I am always looking for strange structures or striking compositions whether duplicatus or not, whether abstract or not. All doing by scanning the sky with my camera for parts that looks promising.
This is one taken with a wide angle (16 mm). Left under a part of the 22 degrees halo could have been seen when I didn’t make it a B&W version.
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Yeah, he seems to see us too and it looks very serious!
Thank you Michael for you explanation of the process to come up with the former subtle result. It comforts me in a certain way that it wasn’t easy at all, but the result is even more impressive knowing about the process. Often pictures of an interesting cloud structure turn out to be rather dull and grey at first sight after uploading, but you know for certain it was different when you spotted it and it is the art of getting out of the raw picture what you attracted at first sight.
You are right, digital photography is the peoples art. It opened a lot of possibilities without the cost of the analogous process. It is true fun. Experimenting, learning, repeating and over again.
Strange undulations that aspire to asperitas
Wow Michael, this picture is very beautiful. I would use the same words to describe it as you did. I am impressed and I am going to study on the way to get these grays while maintaining some sort of sharpness and detail in it. Enchanting.
It reminded me of a picture I posted to the gallery.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/photo/photo-n-3592-x-2
It is not – but almost – black and white in reality. I only deepened the shadows a bit and that gave some extra contrast but it has not the lightness of your example. It is challenging to experiment in the way you showed now. To be continued.
Hello Michael, you inspire me with this undulating asperitas to B&W (as a verb) more candidates. Aspiritas loves B&W, that’s for sure. I experimented with some pictures of crepescular rays and it turns out to be really fun. I am surprised ever again what B&W can do with some extra contrast.
Here is a view on a pond with some reed.
Anyone else who wants to jump in?
I am glad you like the picture George.
What you see is a sundog, right from the sun at 22 degrees. The peculiar distribution of the reflecting cirrus gives it the electric feel.
You must be the very first one to have observed a negative of a horse shoe (vortex). Isabel. Congratulations.
Very nice.
Haha, I love these minions! Very gentle.
For the next one I did not have a metaphor yet, but now I want to recognize the physiognomy of Scarlet Overkill the minions are looking for.
