In The Neighborhood

The other day I decided to take a walk through the neighborhood.  Like most developments, everything is planned out with winding streets and culdesacs, which photographically are not very visually appealing.

What my eye focused on was the curves of the streets and the shapes of the houses as they were bathed in side lighted sunlight.  I basically made the images black and white in order to accent the light and lines that met my eyes.  So this is my short photographic walk through my neighborhood and what I saw.

All images shot using a Sony A7II camera and a kit lens.  Images were converted to black and white in Photoshop.

 

Taking The Camera For A Walk

Take your camera for a walk.  While it is a challenge to be creative indoors during this Covid-19 virus isolation, there is a point where you want to get out for a walk in the sunshine.

Some of these walks with the camera have been around the local neighborhood and in other walks I have driven to what I thought would be an interesting neighborhood to take my camera on a walk.   The challenge of course is what will I see?, and what will be my approach to the subjects presented.  I decided my approach would be to look for lines, shapes and light in my subjects since I would probably be seeing walkways and houses mostly. 

The question do I work in black and white or color?  I have always found that black and white was more dramatic when it comes to lines and shapes.  You have to train your eyes to see in black and white, which requires using the shadows in your subject to define the shape of your subject.  For the following group of images that I photographed, I was not interested in capturing dynamic range, but rather emphasizing the lines and the form of the architecture through darkening the shadows and increasing contrast.     

All of the images were shot in early morning with the sun low in the sky allowing for deep shadows.  The camera is a Sony A7II.  I can be contacted at nymacc@gmail.com for comment or questions.