I belong to a group on Flickr called Get Pushed, in which you are assigned a random "push partner", who checks out your photostream and tries to challenge you to shoot a photo that is out of your comfort zone or which requires you to be creative. I was challenged to
display an emotion but was restricted from purely "happy" or "sad". Considering the circumstances (felt bad that day, my submission was a day late, and I set up, shot, and edited the photo in less than 30 minutes), I thought it turned out really well and I got a lot of positive comments on it...and even two favorites! So that prompted me to post a few of my favorite black and whites from my photostream. You can see all my black and whites in this Flickr set.
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| This is my Push submission referred to above. You can view it larger by clicking here. |
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| Okay, so this one's not true black and white, but I included it in my set because it was monochromatic enough to pass for black and white. There are one or two others that fall under this classification. I love this one, though; it's a Brownie camera from the 40's that belonged to my uncle. I am playing around with TTV photography with it. |
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| This is one of my favorites. This was taken while it was still quite light outside, but because of how far in I was zoomed on the bird, it appeared to be much darker. I am thrilled at how it turned out, and this one has the most views in my photostream (although not the most favorites.) |
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| This was actually taken on my iPhone and processed with Instagram (who incidentally has discontinued this filter; I believe it was Apollo). I was sitting at the tracks waiting for the train to pass. I love how the clouds turned out. |