All tagged black and white
After compositing a set of fireworks photos together, I was struck by the notion of just how much color was there. Fireworks are pretty colorful and that's one reason why we love them. Why not turn that on its head. Break the rules. Fuck the King. Black & White? No, monochrome blue because I was freezing at the waterfront after the sun went down.
Here's a reworked Bay Bridge photo, desaturated to Black & White then split toned. Much, much simpler color palette, and a little bit unearthly. But then night photos are always surprising with their colors. The human eye can't see as much color detail at night like a camera.
There's a nostalgic feeling created by black and white cityscapes. I like to think of fedoras and trench coats, cigarette smoke and cabaret singers. A foggy city, but The City was without its famous fog this night.
I just picked up a pair of Yongnuo 560-IV flash units. The flashes have the ability to transmit wirelessly for off camera flash lighting. The device is fully manual and very affordable at $71.00 each. The instruction manual that came with it is poorly translated into English from Chinese, so I did a lot of button mashing and trial and error. I wanted to figure out how to fire the remote flash while disabling the flash in the camera hotshoe and just having that on camera unit transmit the command to fire the remote flash.
