When I first started out on my 365-photo project I was convinced that I would be mainly shooting in black and white. I’ve had numerous ideas about shooting black and white on film, while experimenting with colour on digital cameras, but it was never that straightforward and I have lacked the discipline and rigour to adhere too closely to such rules.
Colour has thus seeped gently into the pictures, and looking back over the past 9 months I see mainly subtle greys, greens, and blues creeping into the images (or perhaps the images I am being drawn to are ones that predominantly express these colours). An example will be the subject of tomorrow’s post.
Additionally, however, and driven by travel and the need to photograph early in the morning and late in the evening to fit around work schedules, I also find myself rather fascinated by neon lights, and especially the contrast with the surrounding darkness. I have never had the confidence to shoot film at night, so colour goes naturally with digital experiments in these cases (as does the travel associated with these locations) - something that is further amplified by the ability to tweak the tones and saturation to make the image match more closely what I remember seeing in my mind.
Below is one such image: simple and obvious, with the usual vantage point of the camera pointed up from the pedestrian on the street, but nevertheless quite representative of what one sees when walking the city at night.
Paris 2018 : 232/365