Black shadows or shadow details?

Pure black shadow

Some photographic thoughts about contrasts, highlights and shadows.

Many modern contemporary fine art street photographs and cityscape photographs are characterized by strong contrasts between the deepest shadows and the brightest highlights – which makes them very attractive in common. Pure black shadows and pure white highlights predominate – in between there is only a small range of greytones; contrasts are high.

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Zone System Basics, a practical example & cookbook @Godafoss

Caution. This blog post could be highly exciting and interesting or boring dull.

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This blog post is about highlights and shadows, brights and darks, pure whites and pure blacks, smooth and strong contrasts and tons of tones. For some people this post will be highly exciting and interesting, for some it will be as boring and dull as ever possible.

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