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Photography

NV Whino

(20,886 posts) Thu Mar 19, 2015, 03:41 PM Mar 2015

Here's an interesting and short article.

I'm going to give it a try because it's one thing I usually avoid like the plague. And yet, I admire many of the high key photos I've seen.
http://www.ianplant.com/blog/2015/03/16/give-your-photography-style-a-vacation/?utm_source=Ian+Plant+Photography+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e8f883fcb5-March+19+Tips+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_da4fd6618f-e8f883fcb5-62189285&mc_cid=e8f883fcb5&mc_eid=f2ca4a2306#sthash.I2nsLBkc.yk104VYi.dpbs

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Here's an interesting and short article. (Original Post) NV Whino Mar 2015 OP

High Key can be used in many different situations Major Nikon Mar 2015 #1

Good article! ManiacJoe Mar 2015 #2

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

1. High Key can be used in many different situations

Reply to NV Whino (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 06:09 PM

Mar 2015

The first thing you have to divorce from your mind is the concept that photography needs to reproduce what you see. Great photography actually produces what the photographer wants you to see, and that often means isolating a particular part or parts of the frame using various methods. High key is one of those methods.

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)

2. Good article!

Reply to NV Whino (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 06:21 PM

Mar 2015

I need to give this a try as something different to get me out of a rut.

Photography exists on a sliding scale of "photo as documentation" to "photo as art" to "art that started off as a photo". This pushes the photo in to the "art" range, which is neither good nor bad.

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