It was a good summer and fall for me. After thinking about, then studying, then finally acquiring… I got some filters for my camera lenses. These filters change the colors that the camera sees, and our crucial to having dynamic and interesting black and white photographs. Previously, I was underwhelmed by my nature photographs because visually colorful and dynamic scenes just seemed flat. No amount of changes were fixing it.
Without a filter, red and green map to the same shade of grey in black and white. This is clearly not acceptable. After I tried the filters, I was like “Oh, this is what Ansel Adams did!”
I feel like I now have the keys to the city and I can go forward and create all kinds of interesting compositions.
Hooray for the old school.