Teazle Post
This teazle grows beside the arbor that holds a gate between our back yard, and the neighbours’. The other day it was casting a strong shadow onto the gate post.
After trying various treatments I decided that it works best in black and white, though I like the colour as well, what little there is. My main interest was in how well the shadow defines the essence of teazle – spiky and sharp.
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To open the gallery below for larger images click on any thumbnail, navigate with the arrows and escape to return to this page.
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- 1 – tone mapped
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- 2 – Lightroom edits
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- 3 – Lightroom edits
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- 4 – tonemapped
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- 5 – lightroom edits
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- 6 – lightroom edits
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Canon EOS 5D MkII. ISO200, f7.1 (and one at f2.8), 1/500th, some are single images tone-mapped, others are edited solely in Lightroom.
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There’s “my” gate, the item that brought us together! Nice to see it again.
That is your gate – that was my second ever blog post and you were my first ever commenter.
I love shadows, can’t get enough of ‘em. GREAT photos here, Ehpem, you’ve really outdone yourself on this post!
Is that another pun! Wow, two in one day in different ‘posts’. I like this post too
Once again, very nice, especially the top two for both the exciting composition and b/w treatment. When I just saw the first photo, I saw a shadow through a curtain. It became almost like an abstract.
Hi Joseph – thanks so much. I can see how the shadow through a curtain might occur to you, or a shadow on a curtain. Which is a subject I would like to play with, if I could find the right opportunity.
I really like the first image, capturing shadows is something I really haven’t done yet (not sure why)…perhaps a theme is a brewing for me!
Maybe it has to be the right shadow – I don’t recall being all that inspired by them before I saw this one, all sharp and crisp.
Yes, that second one is gorgeous!
I noticed the wood grain pattern, too! Very cool!
Thank Karen. I love that gate. My second ever post was the story of resurrecting that gate from my childhood and hanging it to contain the new neighbour’s toddler who was coming through to go to the park across the street. On her own.
I love that second image. Have you seen the three images in the centre: teazle, teazle shadow, and then the wood grain on the right-hand side of the post that mimics the shape of a teazle head. Well, that’s what I see and that sells this image 100% for me.
Thanks Andy – I had not seen it quite that way, though this is perhaps my favourite of this group. I was looking less at the wood grain (though now you point it out it should have been obvious) and more at the curled circle of the gate decoration as an approximation of the oval teazle. I like you vision better. I wonder if I have any closer images that concentrate just on that, or where I even cropped out the wood grain. Must have a look.
I love muted color tones as well as B&W. .And shadows are always interesting to play with. Your LR skills are very good, too.
Hi Ken – I am slowly drifting towards muted tones, desaturating things where I would have emphasised the colours before. Though not always. Thanks for the compliment, I feel like I have a long way to go, but it is fun to learn, and apply.
Ahhh, I am a sucker for muted colours!!
Well David, some of the stuff you do with layering of colours on b&w images has been catching my eye for months now, without the software to do the same thing. I still can’t follow your method, but can get some similar effects with LR.
I once received a comment on an image saying there there is truth in black and white. I think that’s true, in a black and white image intent is not obscured by colour.
The majority of my images are black and white and I tend to enjoy the work of black and white photographers over colour – you have great images and I look forward to seeing them within your drift towards desaturation.
Hi Marcel. I think that can be true, though sometimes the intent is all about colour, heavily saturated colour even.
No promises that I will be steering a straight-line course to desaturation, but I can feel a certain motion in that direction for certain subjects. A gentle current beckons…
Excellent
Hi Marcel – thanks so much.
Spiky things are lovely subjects.
Thanks Dawn – they are fun to play with!