Len’s Class has a new time slot.

9.30 am Tuesdays it will now include the mystery presentation within the class. This means Tuesday evenings are now a thing of the past.

Over the past few exercises, we have learnt that a high key image doesn’t need to have a rich deep black to make it work. In some high key photographs, bringing in a black point works and in others it doesn’t. The most important thing that we learnt was that bringing in these blacks or increasing contrast brings attention to that area.

This will be true when we reverse the situation to low key images.

This weeks exercise asks you to create low key images (ones that are mainly dark, or have the majority of the photograph being black or dark grey.

In your post processing try bringing up the whites or the highlights in certain spots in the photograph to emphasise certain elements and drop the highlights or whites in others to reduce their emphasis.

For your education please post the before and after photographs.

Three seperate images, with there befores, means you can post six photographs.

Basically we are controlling localised contrast to steer the viewers eye, and to remove distractions.

We will discuss this in the next Len’s Class at 9.30 am Sydney time on Tuesday 14th March 2023.

Post your photographs in this discussion https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/ex167-selectively-adding-highlights-and-whites-to-a-low-key-image-12577379?pid=1334630498#post1334630498