POST YOUR BEST B&W SHOTS! (2)

308Shooter wrote in post #19317627
Just playing around...
Thoughts??

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I like this very much! Simple, beautiful, and elegant. Did you hollow out the egg?

308Shooter wrote in post #19317627
Just playing around...
Thoughts??

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Thoughts. My first two are that it looks elegant and calming and that it must have been hard to set up unless there's a trick (glue?).

mberger3 wrote in post #19317661
I like this very much! Simple, beautiful, and elegant. Did you hollow out the egg?

Thank you.. I thought about hollowing out the egg, but I was lazy. It would have made balancing the egg easier.

OhLook wrote in post #19317674
Thoughts. My first two are that it looks elegant and calming and that it must have been hard to set up unless there's a trick (glue?).

Thank you very much. Elegant is what I was going for. No trick!! Just balanced in between the forks. Wasn't too bad.

Love it!

Which side is up?

LOL.. Right? The top side of course.. lol

Dang. I should have thought of that.

Hye5 wrote in post #19318406

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Very nice! Manzanar?

Mannyromano123 wrote in post #19318427
Very nice! Manzanar?

Thank you! Yes.

In the Manner of Sebastião Salgado...

I must say that I admire his work, both for his use of greyscale images - I consider him a master at this - and the hard road he has travelled to shine light on humanitarian and social issues around the world.

After years of witnessing and photographing human tragedy: war, famine, ethnic cleansing, and the migrations of workers between the country and city, and between countries, he was physically and emotionally exhausted - his soul was damaged and he needed to stop.

He turned his attention and camera to the natural world: not to focus on the damage it is enduring, but to celebrate the wonder of the environment that is untouched by the ravages of modern society, and reconnect us to our natural world. The result is a project called Genesis.

Here he discusses his movement from conflict to conservation in this TED talk:
https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=qH4GAXXH29s

If you are not familiar with his work I recommend the following:
Genesis: https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=C3l0BxP5A_Y

If you are interested in his work, I strongly recommend the full-length documentary of his life, created by his son, called Salt of the Earth - perhaps via Netflix or your library.

In honour of this master of his art, I offer this humble effort on my own behalf.
We are emerging form 15 weeks of lockdown in Auckland, NZ. So, going out to shoot has had limited scope. I wanted to make some small effort to emulate Salgado's style, so I set a task for myself and my camera group to shoot images in the manner of his work. Essentially he photographs social and environmental issues and his style echoes his photographic roots of using Kodak Tri-X film with high contrast and grain.