Dark experimentation

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

- Marcus Luttrell -

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In my last photography post I mentioned my intention to do some black and white experimentation and shooting with low light. I'd taken a couple shots in black and white and my favourite shot of that post was taken using low light for a nice contrast between light and shadow (photo two in that post).

I'm winging it here, I have no fucken clue what I'm really doing, or talking about, but that's what I attempted in the last shoot. This one I tried again, with different subjects.

I was going to do a different shoot this time but I didn't have the right subject so that'll have to wait. As a fill in I grabbed this jewellery and thought I'd see what I could get using less light figuring a little dark experimentation might turn up a reasonable result. All of these have been shot in colour and have not been edited to appear black and white.

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I'm still undecided about where these shots sit on the scale of goodness to be honest. I think there's a couple good ones, good by my standards anyway, but I'm not quite sure I captured the essence of the whole dark thing and am not convinced my dark experimentation was very successful. Still, I got some photos and figured I might as well show them before I delete them and start again.

Feel free to leave any comments below, but try not to ask any technical questions about photography, I won't know how to answer. Basically I point, focus (manually) and press the shutter release with a healthy dose of hope. I respond to comments though, so if you're keen you know what to do.