Black & white landscape photography
Landscape photography in black and white: fine art frames without color. Black-and-white landscape photography as a personal work. Without color, tonal…
Black-and-white landscape photography as a personal work. Without color, tonal distribution alone decides whether a landscape gains depth — cloud, light and the texture of the ground have to do the work color otherwise does. What came out of it is a fine-art series.
One frame shows the Niederwald monument above Rüdesheim: Germania with the raised crown on her plinth, the relief beneath her, the winged figures either side, and in front the rubble-stone wall of the terrace with its iron railing and the flights of steps leading up.
The sky is the real subject here. Above the figure, contrails run in several directions through thin veils of cloud, and in black and white they become lines that all converge on her. In color the same sky would be pale blue and incidental; only the conversion to gray values turns the weather into a composition. Taken in winter, as the bare trees show.
- Style
- Fine Art B&W
