Thursday Challenge-29th January

[ilanale]

Here is my entry for Thursday 29th January

http://www.pbase.com/image/108661872

Thanks for looking,
Ilana

[beverley_h]

ok ill as i am....here is mine!!

http://upload.pbase.com/image/108662538

b
xx

[enjayel]

for this week... an "available light" shot
http://www.pbase.com/image/108662505

I'll catch up on Sat after the internet gets turned on at the new place!!!

[kstuebin]

Here's mine.

http://www.pbase.com/image/108662364

[ed_preston]

This is my attempt at "hi key" (had to Google it to know what it meant!)

http://www.pbase.com/image/108643966

Thanks for the challenge!

[laryl]

High key is certainly a question of interpretation:

my interpretation is
there must be a plain white space (burned)
you play with light and contrast until you wipe out the details of texture
You only keep the lines or elements which are necessary to recognize what's in the picture. But while playing don't wipe out important elements. This works well in B&W
For colour high key for me its an over exposed background ... burnt out white without any details and a correct exposure or high contrast exposure of the subject...

Please let me know what you think of my interpretation.

cheers
Barbara

As with all photography I think interpretation is important and we each have our own views and opinions on things.. and it often depends on who, or what, you learn from. I disagree that there must be plain white space and have never read that. To play with light and contrast in camera/composition is fine, the point of high key is not to create an overblown photo in processing.. it is a type of photo that is taken using bright lights and light colored subjects that results in a high end histogram... as I have learned anyway. Yes, playing with light and contrast in processing is great to improve as we do any image but for high key it's not the idea to blow out an image and call it high key. A high key image is most often seen as b/w or mostly white image but the point is the range of colors/data/info you see are all on the right hand (bright) side of your histogram. Reversely a 'low key' image will contain mostly blacks and midtones (left side of your histogram) with very little on the right side.
Googling high key will return a lot of false results.. many people are confused by it at first. Even tutorials I have seen show how to make one, not take one LOL. It's fun to learn though isn't it!

[jolka]

My high key photo

http://www.pbase.com/image/108665382

Jola

[chrisse]

My attempt at a high key image

http://www.pbase.com/chrisse/image/108665587

chrisse

[1designguy]

In keeping with "Minimalism January" I offer...

[lilau]

sorry to use an old picture from this summer...... it's look to be near from the subject...

http://www.pbase.com/lilau/image/104059420

i hope you will enjoy

lilau

[lexis]

Fun in the snow!

[apo_ni_ipe]

I have found out that a very high ISO setting can produce a high key effect:

http://www.pbase.com/apo_ni_ipe/image/108666621

Ray

[wakenphotography]

Just one of those "uh??" thingies.....

[rjyates]

Here's mine...

http://www.pbase.com/rjyates/image/108666891

[phillipn]

Bog standard high-key SP... inspiration failure. lol

http://www.pbase.com/image/108667947