Tuesday 8 September 2015

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES: WHAT IS A 'LOW KEY' IMAGE?

MEDITATION
photo by Michael O'Brien

LOW KEY treatment of a photograph involves far more than ratcheting back the exposure in camera or in Photoshop. It involves 'seeing' the scene in a darker rendering than how it normally looks and then making the decision to go with that because it will fulfill your vision of the scene. There is something primordial and timeless about people paddling on the open water at dawn and I saw the chance to express that in this image.

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