Many great photographers have said that there’s few things more interesting than a pattern interrupted. Typically that interruption is via a splash of color. However, how do you make that splash without looking like Sin City? Some say adding color to a black and white is blasphemy, others feel it has been overdone, yet others think it’s fantastic? Since art is subjective and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, they are all right!
In this shot I decided to push myself to go outside of my comfort zone and interrupt the jet blacks and rich grayscale tones with a little interruption. Granted there’s no real pattern here, but the same concept applies. My interruption is subtle (the hood ornament on the BMW and turn signal on the Mercedes), but they are deliberate. My goal is to capture your eye with the BMW headlight, but to pull you deeper into the photo with the color hood ornament. The Mercedes should not be forgotten so I try to pull you deeper in with the color turn signal lamp 9since there’s no other color object on the car to grab you). This hopefully causes your eyes to explore the photo and the vignette hopefully keeps you in long enough that you make a repeat voyage across the attention getting points.
This image was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II using 24-105mm lens set to 24mm and f/11 for 1/4 sec. It was on a Gitzo GT1541 tripod with mirror lockup and a timer enabled for a sharp crisp shot. To process this color photo I used Nik Software’s Viveza to control the light and dark spots, Silver Efex Pro 2 to do the color conversion, and Color Efex 4 for the tonal contrast filter. Photoshop was used so I could do fine level masking on the photo at various points and Lightroom was used for RAW file conversion.
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