Fortnightly Challenge - 3rd Aug to midnight 15th Aug - High Contrast Black & White

[Gidders]

Ups & Downs

Up - Robski's - Love Hate. A great idea & certainly plenty of contrast. I think still life shots like this can be really difficult as small changes to the composition can make a big change to the end result. I found the two balanced tiles jarred a bit. I'd have been tempted to try it with LOVE spelled out all on the horizontal leading towards the jar, rotated the jar clockwise about 45 deg so that the face of it was into the image, & then had HATE as a vertical word reading down, again slightly angled into the image, to act as a stop for the eye.

Down - Marydoll's - The Arcadia. Great contrast, like the sky, but for me the image as it stands is more about the tree than the Arcadia. I'm not normally a fan of square crops, but I think this might be a case where it would work, cropping off the left to put the building on the bottom right third and reducing the dominance of the tree.

As ever folks - JMHO

[Tugboat]

my up was Peter's, beside the sea, fine composition, maybe just a little too bright.

down- Himself's supermoon , certainly fitted the high contrast theme, I hope to catch the next supermoon when it comes.

I have started a new thread for the next challenge...ABSTRACT

[graham harcombe]

Super shot and beautifully candid. Best wishes for recovery after your op :-)

[Ade G]

Lovely shot, a deserved winner