testing bw

1st edit. 

its not done.

I've converted this image to BW to see if I can see something new.

Cutting down information (color) to see some more.

That's Black and White.


Ansel Adams was the man who mastered Black and White back in the days.
He created this system that almost everyone followed. Nowdays it's a trend to break the system.
The system was called the Zone System.

Zone System is a system of Black and White photography that are expressed through the full spectrum of grayscale.

What the fu@k that mean?

It means two things.
1- It uses ALL grays between black and white.
2- I don't know why but 100% white (overblown) is looked down with a frown.

2 things happened in photography.
Daido Moriyama and color photography.

First, color photography advanced and Ansel later said he shudda' explored color more.
Second, Daido Moriyama broke the rule and made 100% (white or black) hot as f.

It is only now, that hot photographers like Jacob Aue Sobol (Magnum) started homaging Moriyama that made breaking rules prestigious.

Breaking the Zone became one of the hottest standard in photo.

People say "that grudgy contrast look" not knowing what is what.
Paolo Pellegrin had that look before Jacob is not the know in the knows.
It's "that grudgy contrast look" and the name "Daido Moriyama" was all that mattered.

Because people do not know what push two stops on a T-Max 3200 means anymore.
Everything is now Click, Post and Like.

So, the art of 1-tone (BnW) is that, information is cut down.
Contrast of presented information results as a result.
It means we focus on different things, like shapes. Figures and symbols.
Because there are no more pretty colors to distract, so then the subject speaks.

And contrasts add more attention to subject captured.
So Daido learnt all from Eikoh Hosoe, an unmatchable figure in Japan's Black and White photography.

And we are learning to lose all from click-post-likes.

Or not... as we transcend, sharing informations.
Such become influences; cultures shared among humanity.
Like, William Klein being Daido's influence in photography too...